fix name error causing crash when symbols are included in output messages. Closes #124662

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2fc80ac6e..0dbd29bfd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ ChangeLog for PyLint
     * #124660: internal dependencies should not appear in external dependencies
       report
 
+    * #124662: fix name error causing crash when symbols are included in output
+      messages
 
 2013-02-26 -- 0.27.0
 
diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 3f499ffdb..c26bb9a43 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ class MessagesHandlerMixIn:
         Can be just the message ID or the ID and the symbol.
         """
         if self.config.symbols:
-            symbol = self.check_message_id(msg_id).symbol
+            symbol = self.check_message_id(msgid).symbol
             if symbol:
                 msgid += '(%s)' % symbol
         return msgid