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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You have a misplaced parenthesis. The working code has str (…Cell(…) ).split() and the failing code has str (…Cell(…).split() ) –in other words, the bad code has split() applied to the argument of str() rather than the result of str().<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> python-win32-bounces+pkoning=equallogic.com@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+pkoning=equallogic.com@python.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>cool_go_blue<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> python-win32@python.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [python-win32] a trivial question<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>I try to use comprehensions when I am learning Python. After opening a word document, i try to read the 2nd column of a table for each row. I print out the words as follows:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>for</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> row <span style='color:blue'>in</span> range(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>,len(<i>self</i>.doc.Tables(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>).Rows)+<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> for</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> word <span style='color:blue'>in</span> str(<i>self</i>.doc.Tables(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>).Cell(row,<span style='color:maroon'>2</span>)).split():<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> if</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> word <span style='color:blue'>not</span> <span style='color:blue'>in</span> stopwords:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> print</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> word</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>But I get a runtime error when I have the following code:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>content = [[word <span style='color:blue'>for</span> word <span style='color:blue'>in</span> str(<i>self</i>.doc.Tables(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>).Cell(row,<span style='color:maroon'>2</span>).split()) <span style='color:blue'>if</span> word <span style='color:blue'>not</span> <span style='color:blue'>in</span> stopwords]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>for</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> row <span style='color:blue'>in</span> range(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>,len(<i>self</i>.doc.Tables(<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>).Rows)+<span style='color:maroon'>1</span>)]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The error is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>File "J:\MyProjects\Python\VectorSpaceTry\src\ReadCorpus.py", line 111, in <module><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>array.setup()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>File "J:\MyProjects\Python\VectorSpaceTry\src\ReadCorpus.py", line 79, in setup<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>for row in range(1,len(self.doc.Tables(1).Rows)+1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>File "F:\Softwares\Working\Languages\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 465, in __getattr__<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self), attr))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Word 14.0 Object Library.Cell instance at 0x51383312>' object has no attribute 'split'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>what is wrong with my code? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>B.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>