bpo-38698: Prevent UnboundLocalError to pop up in parse_message_id#17277
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I'm not sure if this is NEWS worthy and can't apply "skip news" by myself. |
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I'd like you to change the code like below.
message_id = MessageID()
try:
token, value = get_msg_id(value)
+ message_id.append(token)
except errors.HeaderParseError:
message_id.defects.append(errors.InvalidHeaderDefect(
"Expected msg-id but found {!r}".format(value)))
- else:
- message_id.append(token)
return message_id
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What is wrong with having the append call inside the else branch? Especially since the body of the try statement contains just the instruction that might fail. This seems to me like an extra nitpicky comment for a personal flavour, not necessarily an issue with the code itself.
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It didn't mean your code was wrong. I apologize if you feel bad.
As I read the code again, the original author's intention seems to be the code you proposed.
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It didn't mean your code was wrong. I apologize if you feel bad.
As I read the code again, the original author's intention seems to be the code you proposed.
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@corona10 We do need a NEWS item for this, it is a bugfix. Skip News label should be used only for trivial doc changes. The changes look good, thanks for your contribution @PCManticore, can you please add a NEWS entry? Devguide has explanation on using the |
parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising `UnboundLocalError` on parsing an invalid value.
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@maxking Makes sense, all done! |
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Sorry, I can't merge this PR. Reason: |
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I think this can be backported to 3.8 too which has the same issue. |
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You are of course right @tirkarthi :) |
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Thanks @PCManticore for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.8. |
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GH-17476 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.8 branch. |
…ythonGH-17277) parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising `UnboundLocalError` on parsing an invalid value. https://bugs.python.org/issue38698 (cherry picked from commit bb81549) Co-authored-by: Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com>
…H-17277) parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising `UnboundLocalError` on parsing an invalid value. https://bugs.python.org/issue38698 (cherry picked from commit bb81549) Co-authored-by: Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com>
…ythonGH-17277) parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising `UnboundLocalError` on parsing an invalid value. https://bugs.python.org/issue38698
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parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception
handler, which was raising
UnboundLocalErroron parsing an invalid value.https://bugs.python.org/issue38698
Automerge-Triggered-By: @maxking