[Tutor] AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find'

[Alan Gauld]

"Ben Ganzfried" <ben.ganzfried at gmail.com> wrote

> 1) Doesn't the read() file object method return the specified
> characters from the file as a string?

Yes
> 2) If #1 is correct, then why is my variable "source" being viewed 
> as
> a list as opposed to a string?

You are not using read(), you are using readlines()
which returns all of the lines in a list.

> 3) How can I change my variable "source" so that it can use the 
> 'find'
> method?

Use read()

HTH,


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