Crappy Python code of the day

[Steven D'Aprano]

This has been in production for months, the writer of the code has left 
and the new maintainer has been asked to find out why it has been 
crashing with UnboundLocalError:


    try:
        result = future.result()
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
        pass
    resp = self.client.service.GetModifiedTerminals(
                __inject={'reply': result.content})


Traceback (most recent call last):
    [incriminating details removed for the protection of the guilty]
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment


https://realpython.com/blog/python/the-most-diabolical-python-antipattern/



-- 
Steve