Problems with telnetlib

[Sheila King]

On 16 Feb 2002 13:56:35 +0100, Jan-Fredrik Braseth
<janfbr at sex.ifi.uio.no> wrote in comp.lang.python in article
<xyuvgcxlh4s.fsf at sex.ifi.uio.no>:

>  but after some time I get this error message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./quizbot.py", line 366, in ?
>     foo = QuizBot(name,password,channel)
>   File "./quizbot.py", line 28, in __init__
>     line = self.tn.read_until("\n").split()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/telnetlib.py", line 297, in read_until
>     self.process_rawq()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/telnetlib.py", line 424, in process_rawq
>     self.msg('IAC %d not recognized' % ord(opt))
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'opt' referenced before assignment
> 
> The main loop of the bot is just a while(1) which reads a line at the
> time from the connection: line =self.tn.read_until("\n").split()
> and it looks like this fails after some time.
> 
> tn is initiated like this:
> 
> tn = telnetlib.Telnet(server,port)
> 
> I really hope someone can help me with this problem

You have an error in your code. Show us the code. I'm guessing, that you
have a variable 'opt' that under some circumstances is not defined
before entering a particular loop or something.

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