[Tutor] How do I fix the following error? Code and errormessage supplied.

[Nathan Pinno]

Thank you to all. The Password Program works perfectly. Time for me to relax 
and finish up my other loose project ends, and then I'll be able to start 
another major project.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Pinno" <falcon3166 at hotmail.com>
To: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Tutor mailing list" <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] How do I fix the following error? Code and errormessage 
supplied.


> Hey Danny and all,
>
> Alan's tutorial did help me, and showed me how to correctly load a file 
> upon
> entry, and save upon exit. It should be smooth sailing from here on it.
>
> Thank again,
> Nathan
> --- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
> To: "Nathan Pinno" <falcon3166 at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "Tutor mailing list" <tutor at python.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] How do I fix the following error? Code and error
> message supplied.
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Nathan Pinno wrote:
>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "D:\Python24\password.py", line 82, in -toplevel-
>>>     load_file(sitelist,filename)
>>>   File "D:\Python24\password.py", line 51, in load_file
>>>     [site,ID,passcard] = string.split(in_line,",")
>>>   File "D:\Python24\lib\string.py", line 292, in split
>>>     return s.split(sep, maxsplit)
>>> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'
>>
>>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> Let's pay attention to the line 51 in your file:
>>
>>>     [site,ID,passcard] = string.split(in_line,",")
>>
>> string.split() will fail if it is being given a set of arguments that it
>> doesn't understand.  string.split() works only if in_line is a string.
>>
>>
>> But in the function load_file(), in_line is a list of strings.  So 
>> there's
>> definitely a bug in load_file, in confusing the list of lines with a
>> particular single line.  Actuallly, a lot of load_file() needs some
>> rework.
>>
>>
>> We strongly recommend you go through:
>>
>>    http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutfiles.htm
>>
>> because the code that you're writing to handle the reading of files is
>> using a very old style of Python that hasn't been seen since the Python
>> 1.52 days; I suspect that you are learning from a very deprecated
>> tutorial! The approach that Alan takes in his "Learning How to Program"
>> tutorial uses a more modern, less bug-prone style of reading files.
>>
>>
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