function not defined but really is defined

Question

I am writing a script and in my script I have this function:

def insert_image(cursor, object_id, sku):
    product_obj = core.Object.get(object_id)
    string_sku = str(sku)
    folder = string_sku[0] + string_sku[1] + string_sku[2]
    found_url = False
    # KLUDGE This is ugly and redundant, however putting this in an if elif elif else throws error when url not found
    # try this url first
    try urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):
        urllib.URLopener().retrieve("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku), "%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (sku))
        found_url = True
    except:
        found_url = False
    # If that one didn't work try this one
    if found_url == False:
        try urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPK-PT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):
            urllib.URLopener().retrieve("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPK-PT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku), "%sPK-PT,PM.jpg" % (sku))
            found_url = True
        except:
            found_url = False
    # If still nothing, one last attempt
    if found_url == False:
        try urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sCC-PT,IM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):
            urllib.URLopener().retrieve("http://<path to images>/%s/%sCC-PT,IM.jpg" % (folder, sku), "%sCC-PT,IM.jpg" % (sku))
            found_url = True
        except:
            found_url = False
    # We failed to find an image for this product, it will have to be done manually
    if found_url == False:
        log.info("Could not find the image on notions")
        return False

    # Hey we found something! Open the image....
    send_image = open('%sPK-PT,PM.jpg' % sku, 'r')
    # ...and send it for processing
    if product_obj.set_image(send_image, 5, 1) == False:
        return False
    else:
        log.debug("Inserted Image")
        return True

This worked fine until I added the try catches. I did have the if, elif, the function ran just fine. Here is my call and the peice of code that runs right before it:

   if rollback == False:
        # Nah -- it's all good SAVE IT!
        count += 1
        log.debug("INSERT %s" % count)
        conn.commit()
    else:
        # Yeah something went wrong, errors reported why, roll it back
        conn.rollback()
        log.debug("skipped %s" % skip_count)

  # Insert images
        if rollback == False:
            sku = row[0]
            if insert_image(cursor, object_id, sku) == False:
                log.error("Could not get the image inserted for product: %s" % object_id)
                conn.rollback()
            else:
                conn.commit()

My error is:

16:33:46,153 DEBUG [pylons-admin] Inserted Description
16:33:46,164 DEBUG [pylons-admin] Inserted Attributes
16:33:46,164 DEBUG [pylons-admin] INSERT 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 47, in <module>
NameError: name 'insert_image' is not defined

I don't know what line 47 means because the call is on line 2101, again before I added the trys, it found the function just fine. I also switched the first commit to be before the insert_image call when I added the trys like you see now, before the commit was after we called insert_image. I checked indents, and spaces, and tabs w/ no avail.

I use TextMate, when I run the script from TextMate, I get a syntax error here:

 try urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):

It points to the ( on (folder... But I don't see where I have a syntax error. Please help. I have been working on this script for a couple of weeks now, this was supposed to be the last run to test and call it finished :(

Answer 1

You have syntax errors in your function:

try urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):
        urllib.URLopener().retrieve("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku), "%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (sku))
        found_url = True
    except:
        found_url = False

It should be:

try:
    urllib.urlopen("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku)):
    urllib.URLopener().retrieve("http://<path to images>/%s/%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (folder, sku), "%sPR-IT,PM.jpg" % (sku))
    found_url = True
except:
    found_url = False

You also have some broad catches, that catch those SyntaxErrors and hide errors, but insert_image is not defined this way. Never use alone except:, always put name of the Exception, that you want to catch. Otherwise you will also catch things like SyntaxError and this is very dangerous.

Answer 2

This sounds like you have a whitespace issue before the method. The incorrect whitespace has moved it outside of the normal code path and if it is in a class it may not appear to be in the class any more