Problems with telnetlib

[Jan-Fredrik Braseth]

Sheila King <usenet at thinkspot.net> writes:

> 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
> > > 
> 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.

If you look closely at the traceback you see that the error with opt is in the
telnetlib.py, that's a module for python. But it's unlikely that there is a bug
in python itself, isn't it?

BTW: it's python 2.2

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