NameError: name 'host' is not defined

Question

I\'m new in python programming. When i try running a simple python script i get error like this in my terminal

root@bt:/tmp# python code.py
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Answer 1

it seem that your script expects an input parameter

host=str(sys.argv[1])

in case that parameter is not supplied, as shown in your post, an exception raised and been caught in the except clause before the host parameter was defined

try to declare host before the try/except block