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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Menezes?=
 <77670471+menezesandre@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:11:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix UnboundLocalError in MarkItDown._convert (#1038)

Initialize `res` at the beginning of `_convert`. If the first converter raises an exception, then the `res` variable was not initialized and we got an error when checking `if res is not None`
---
 packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
index 297f554..7c8d006 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ class MarkItDown:
     def _convert(
         self, local_path: str, extensions: List[Union[str, None]], **kwargs
     ) -> DocumentConverterResult:
+        res: Union[None, DocumentConverterResult] = None
         error_trace = ""
 
         # Create a copy of the page_converters list, sorted by priority.