Storing lines from a text file

Alex Martelli aleax at mail.comcast.net
Sun Jan 29 19:22:26 EST 2006


<bradfordh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I keep getting an error when I try to use what you said Mr. McDonald. I
> think I've  got something wrong, but take a look if you can.
> 
> log = open('C:\log_0.txt')
> lines = log.getlines()
> for line in lines:
>      print line
> 
> When I debug it the error I get is the following:
>        AttributeError: 'file' object has no attribute 'getlines'

Yep, the method's name is readlines, not getlines.


Alex



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