--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Version 0.9.3
+http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/babel/tags/0.9.3/
+(?, from branches/stable/0.9.x)
+
+* Fixed invalid message extraction methods causing an UnboundLocalError.
+	
+
 Version 0.9.2
 http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/babel/tags/0.9.2/
 (Feb 4 2007, from branches/stable/0.9.x)

--- a/babel/messages/extract.py
+++ b/babel/messages/extract.py
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@
     :rtype: `list`
     :raise ValueError: if the extraction method is not registered
     """
+    func = None
     if ':' in method:
         module, clsname = method.split(':', 1)
         func = getattr(__import__(module, {}, {}, [clsname]), clsname)

--- a/babel/messages/tests/extract.py
+++ b/babel/messages/tests/extract.py
@@ -325,6 +325,10 @@
                           (8, u'Rabbit', []),
                           (10, (u'Page', u'Pages'), [])], messages)
 
+    def test_invalid_extract_method(self):
+        buf = StringIO('')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, list, extract.extract('spam', buf))
+
     def test_different_signatures(self):
         buf = StringIO("""
 foo = _('foo', 'bar')