UnboundLocalError: local variable 'prefs' referenced before assignment

[ftiff]

Got this error with latest release:

[fti@gramont generate_report (master)]$ ./generate.sh 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/generate_report.py", line 12, in <module>
    jss_prefs = jss.JSSPrefs()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jss/jss_prefs.py", line 125, in __init__
    self.parse_plist(self.preferences_file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jss/jss_prefs.py", line 154, in parse_plist
    self.user = prefs.get("jss_user")
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'prefs' referenced before assignment

FYI I fixed this by converting the plist from binary to xml with plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.github.sheagcraig.python-jss.plist

[sheagcraig]

Hey @ftiff. When running your generate script, does it do so with a python that has pyobjc available? /usr/bin/python will have it; but any virtualenv or other python2 that you have will not by default.

That being said, it's supposed to fall back to importing plistlib and trying to do a plutil -convert on the file and try reading it again.

Is your script catching exceptions and hiding any that may have been raised while it was trying to read the prefs?

[sheagcraig]

To get this error, the parse_plist code would have to have neither PyObjC nor success converting the plist from binary to xml1 and parsing using the stdlib plistlib.

Still an issue?