huh? Python says that AttributeError: 'string' object has no

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 26-Apr-00 schmitthead at my-deja.com wrote:
 >  I received a whole folder full of files with MacOS type text files, with
 >  different newline characters.  I thought, a perfect job for python.
 >  Below is my attempt, but it generates the following error message:
 >  
 > >mac2dos tt_prvt.h
 >  Traceback (innermost last):
 >    File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 33, in ?
 >      mac2dos( directory )
 >    File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 24, in mac2dos
 >      os.path.walk( os.getcwd(), callbackfunc, '' )
 >    File "d:\python\Lib\ntpath.py", line 265, in walk
 >      func(arg, top, names)
 >    File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 18, in callbackfunc
 >      mac2dosfile( file )
 >    File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 9, in mac2dosfile
 >      lines = myline.split( myline, chr(10) )
 >  AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'split'

The line should be

    lines = string.split( myline, chr(10) )
            ^^^^^^

split is a function in the module string.

/Mikael

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