🔒 I don't understand how I am getting this error and I know how to fix it

[timid sundial]

@loud light

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[lime spoke]

well assuming that you do not have anything past the if-else that uses contact_obj, then the warning (not error) would be correct

what is your expected result?

[lethal sedge]

... and to be clear, these are just linter warnings. If your code is still incomplete because you haven't done anything with context_obj yet, but are going to, these warnings can be ignored until later when things are complete.

[loud light]

Do I need contact_obj to be globalized and set the value to None?

[loud light]

I thought the variable would be referenced after the if block

[lethal sedge]

If there's no code after the if block, what will reference it?

[loud light]

The else block comes after the if block

Ahh i see

I fixed it

[lethal sedge]

Oh. Only one of those will run at any given time. So that doesn't count.
So this:

if whatever:
    x = 1
else:
    x = 2

does not use the value of x. But this:

if whatever:
    x = 1
else:
    x = 2
print(x)

does use it.

[loud light]

contact_obj was only referenced in the else block

Thanks for the help

[timid sundial]

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