Electrum console error

[financial freedom]

Using Electrum 2.9.0 in Ubuntu14.04
Attempting to use console results in

Code:

>>electrum help
Traceback (most recent call last):
    electrum help
                      ^
SyntaxError:invalid syntax
>> help
'help' is a function. Type 'help()' to use it in the Python console.

Any help?

[pooya87]

the console is answering you itself. if read the last line it is saying you must use help() instead (in other words use parenthesis in front of your functions)

[financial freedom]

The sort of response i get, this is typed manually so there's errors in the exact copying,

Code:

>>help()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/main_window.py", line 1711 in <lambda>
    return lambda *args: apply(f, (method,args,self.password_dialog ))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/commands.py", line104, in _run
    result = f(*args, **{'password':password})
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'password' referenced before assignment

I have tried various things and I can get no useful responses.

[pooya87]

now this is different from your initial mistake for missing the () in front of the functions.
this new error you received and posted here is a known issue with this particular version (Electrum 2.9.0), when you use console in this version it looks for password by mistake, that is why you are getting this not-user-friendly error message.
it should be fixed in 2.9.3 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/2684

always try to use the latest versions. ie V 3.0.2