can't create object instance!?

[HeelToeHeroe]

Hello all,
first post here. I am a programming student learning python (I know some other languages pretty well) and I am baffled by this problem. I normally code in linux, but this program is for windows(don't see anything that makes this matter, but just in case).
I am trying to make an instance of the class Employee. When I try to do so, it says "Unbound Local Error: Local variable 'Employee' referenced before assignment". The thing is, I'm trying to create it, lol. I believe I have the right number of arguments for the __init__ function (self doesn't count when you create an instance, right?) so it shouldn't be looking for a different Employee class. Thanks for the help.
-HeelToe

import time
import os

global emps

def main():
    startup()
    loopit()
    return

class Employee:
    def __init__(self, ID, namef, namel):
            self.PID =ID
            self.fname = namef
            self.lname = namel
            self.timein = []
            self.timeout = []
            self.clockedin = 0
            
    def show_wk_times():
        print "showing week times for ", self.PID
        
    def show_all_times():
        print "showing all times for ", self.PID

def startup():
    #os.system("cls")
    global emps
    emps = []
    print "starting up!"

def loopit():
    running = 1
    global emps
    #x = Employee(6912, 'Eric', 'Olsen')
    emps.append(Employee(6912, "Eric", "Olsen"))

(code continues)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

[Samhain13]

self doesn't count when you create an instance, right?

Right.

Weird though. I just ran your script with the x = Employee line uncommented and the thing works. (Using Python 2.6 in Ubuntu.)

[HeelToeHeroe]

Originally Posted by Samhain13

Right.

Weird though. I just ran your script with the x = Employee line uncommented and the thing works. (Using Python 2.6 in Ubuntu.)

I just tried running python 2.6 in Ubuntu on my laptop and got the same error...I'll have to scrutinize this later. Thanks for the help though.

[HeelToeHeroe]

Sorry, I didn't give you the whole code, namely the segment causing the error. I had a for loop with incorrect syntax:

for Employee in emps:
....

I thought the 'Employee' had to be the name of the object contained in the list, but it knows what's in the list so I changed it to 'E' and it works. Even though the for loop was after the constructor, it saw 'Employee' as an unbound variable. Thanks though.
-Heeltoe

[Samhain13]

^ Nice.