On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:34 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
Document all options in --help output. If -n is not in use, then enhance the banner to print the current state of h, and further tailor the advice given on useful next steps to take to mention opt_go when using --opt-mode.
I had to partially revert this patch (reverting most of it) because it unfortunately breaks the implicit handle creation :-(
https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/5a02c7d2cc6a201f9e5531c0c20c2f3c22...
I'm not actually sure how to do this correctly in Python. I made several attempts, but I don't think Python is very good about having a variable which is only defined on some paths -- maybe it's not possible at all.
Can you share the error when it breaks? I'm not sure what is the issue, but usually if you have a global variable created only in some flows, adding: thing = None At the start of the module makes sure that the name exists later, regardless of the flow taken. Code can take the right action based on: if thing is None: ... Nir