Newbie TypeError problem

[Paul Prescod]

Francis Moore wrote:

>   File "D:\Python23\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 111, in
> prepareParser
>     self._parser.SetBase(source.getSystemId())
> TypeError: SetBase() argument 1 must be string, not member_descriptor
> 
> Seems to be failing on the line:
> 
> parser.parse(file)

Please insert this line into your program:

print type(file)

Perhaps the type is something other than you expect?

  Paul Prescod