[Tutor] Splitting

[Alan Gauld]

>  Example :-
>  >>> a="43;dsds;d" 
>>>> 
>>>> b=a.split(';')
>   
>  Here I encountered the following error :-
>   
>  Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'split'
>   
>  Can anybody help on resolving this issue?

>>> a="43;dsds;d"
>>> b=a.split(';')
>>> b
['43', 'dsds', 'd']
>>>

Works for me in Python 2.4

Are you using an old version of Python? pre v2.0?
If so you need to use the string module rather than string methods.
Otherwise I don't know what might be wrong.

Alan G.