[Baypiggies] Help with code

[Max Slimmer]

elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ': 

you need to use [] vs () to subscript into line. as the message says line is
not callable.
line[-1] is the last char in line and line[1] is the second char in line.
 
max


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From: baypiggies-bounces at python.org [mailto:baypiggies-bounces at python.org]
On Behalf Of Alden Meneses
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:04 PM
To: baypiggies at python.org
Subject: [Baypiggies] Help with code


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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