[Tutor] why it is showing attribute error in line7

[Alan Gauld]

Please always post the full error text in future.

Meanwhile I'll guess:


On 29/10/16 05:42, SONU KUMAR wrote:
> fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
> if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
> fh = open(fname)
> count = 0
> for line in fh:
>    line=line.rstrip

missing parens means you reassign line to the method.

>    if not line.startswith("From"):continue

The method does not have a startwith attribute.

>    lst=line.split()

Nor a split method.

> 
>    print lst[1]
> 
>    count=count+1
> print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word"

HTH


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