Question

I had a script which I developed in /var/tmp and worked… when I moved to the required directory for some reason it returns the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tail.py", line 104, in <module>
    test=isItAlive(line)
  File "tail.py", line 55, in isItAlive
    return test
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'test' referenced before assignment

The function it is moaning about is:

def isItAlive(text):
        with open(valcsv) as f:
                searches = [x.split(',')[1] for x in f.read().splitlines()]
                for search in searches:
                #       print search
                        if not search in text:
                                test="TOBEADDED"
                        else:
                                test=search
                                break
                return test
        f.close()

Answer 1

Your searches value is empty, so the for loop never assigns a value to test.

Initialize test at the start of your function:

def isItAlive(text):
    test = None

and figure out why your valcsv file is empty.