[Tutor] local var error

[Alan Gauld]

"Prasad" <microteacher at gmail.com> wrote

>I am writing a function to find correct transformer lamination for
> specific wattage. It gives an error message:
>
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stdArea' referenced before assignment

Please al;ways senmd the full error text not just the last line.
However in your case we can do without....

>        voltAmp=raw_input("How much power in Watts you want to handle?:)

voltAmp is a string
You probabluy want to convert it to an int or float

        voltAmp=int( raw_input("How much power in Watts you want to 
handle?: ) )


> dictLam={0.2:32,2:17,5:12,6:1,7:74,10:2,18:45,31:15,45:33,75:13,156:5,494:43}
>        temp=dictLam.keys()
>        temp.sort()
>        vamaxList=temp
>        print vamaxList
>        for x in vamaxList:

You could replace all of that with

for x in sorted(dictLam):

>            if x<voltAmp:

This is comparing a number to a string.

>                pass#print ".",
>            else:
>                stdArea=(math.sqrt(x))/6

This only gets exercised if the test is false, which, if you are comparing
to a string might never be true. So it might not get excercised vand the
variable might never get created. Better to initialise it to a default 
value
(zero?) outside the loop if it is only used inside a conditional. Or catch
the exception if no sensible default exists.

>        windArea=(math.sqrt(stdArea))*0.75

> I am creating a variable in the for loop. Shouldn't it work outside it?

It will if you create it, I suspect you never do.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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