[Baypiggies] Help with code

[Andy Wiggin]

in "elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ':", it looks like you need
[], not () for subscripting the string. -andy

On Nov 23, 2007 3:04 PM, Alden Meneses <aldenm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am playing with python to work read some text files and help me gather
> some data. I have some further reading to do and was hoping some of you can
> help point me in the right direction. This is what I have so far.
>
>
> f = open('H:\xxxx\xxxx\xxxx\9-7-07')
> #File is a report that summarizes each account by account group and service
> area then has the details for each account and Totals before the next group
> of accounts.
>  edit = ["GRP", "AREA", "CHARGES"]
> ptype = "NULL"
> area = "NULL"
> for line in f:
>     if line[:12] == 'ACCOUNT GROUP':
>         ptype = line[16:]                                   # The account
> group starts on the 16th character of the line
>      elif line[:11] == 'SERVICE AREA':
>         area = line[11:]                                    # The service
> area starts on the 11th character of the line
>     elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ':
>         edit.append(ptype,area,line[56:66])        # I wanted to append the
> edit stack with the variables collected above.
> f.close()
> print edit
>
>
> I get this error message -
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 310, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\menesea\My Documents\scripts\readfile.py",
> line 11, in <module>
>     elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ':
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alden
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