'NameError: global name 'guidoc' is not defined'

resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py

@@ -1,23 +1,15 @@
-import uuid
 import xbmc
 import xbmcaddon
-from xml.dom.minidom import parse
 import utils
 
 settings = {}
-try:
+
-    path = xbmc.translatePath(
+guisettingsXML = utils.guisettingsXML()
-        'special://userdata/guisettings.xml').decode('utf-8')
+
-    guidoc = parse(path)
-except:
-    print "PlexKodiConnect - Unable to read XBMC's guisettings.xml"
 
 def getGUI(name):
-    global guidoc
-    if guidoc is None:
-        return False
     try:
-        return guidoc.getElementsByTagName(name)[0].firstChild.nodeValue
+        return list(guisettingsXML.iter(name))[0].text
     except:
         return ""
 

resources/lib/utils.py

@@ -650,6 +650,23 @@ def musiclibXML():
     etree.ElementTree(root).write(xmlpath)
 
 
+def guisettingsXML():
+    """
+    Returns special://userdata/guisettings.xml as an etree xml root element
+    """
+    path = xbmc.translatePath("special://profile/").decode('utf-8')
+    xmlpath = "%sguisettings.xml" % path
+
+    try:
+        xmlparse = etree.parse(xmlpath)
+    except:
+        # Document is blank or missing
+        root = etree.Element('settings')
+    else:
+        root = xmlparse.getroot()
+    return root
+
+
 def advancedSettingsXML():
     """
     Deactivates Kodi popup for scanning of music library