AttributeError Problem

[animemaiden]

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:02:08 PM UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > numberOfVertices = int(infile.readline().decode()) # Read the first line from the file
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> > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'readline'
> 
> ...
> 
> >     infile = filedialog.askopenfilename()
> 
> 
> 
> This is just returning a filename.  You need to open it to get a file
> 
> object.  For example:
> 
> 
> 
>     infile = filedialog.askopenfilename()
> 
>     fd = open(infile)
> 
>     ...
> 
>     numberOfVertices = int(fd.readline().decode())
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> 
> 
> Skip
Thanks, but now I have this error AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'