line error on no. 7

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

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> Sent: Tuesday, 28 July, 2015 10:21:59 PM
> Subject: line error on no. 7
> Hi Everyone,
> I'm writing python code to read a data text file, split the file into
> a list of words using the split(function) and to print the results
> in alphabetical order.
> The raw python code is located at http://tinyurl.com/oua9uqx
> The sample data is located at
> http://tinyurl.com/odt9nhe
> Desired Output: ['Arise', 'But', 'It', 'Juliet', 'Who', 'already',
> 'and', 'breaks', 'east', 'envious', 'fair', 'grief', 'is', 'kill',
> 'light', 'moon', 'pale', 'sick', 'soft', 'sun', 'the', 'through',
> 'what', 'window', 'with', 'yonder']
> There is a line error on no. 7
> What is the cause of this error?

> Regards,
> Hal

> Sent from Surface

Hi,


It's better to post the code with your question.

Python 2.7

fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
fh = open(fname)
lst = list()
for line in fh:
    if fh == list: continue
    list.split()
    list.append
    sorted("fh") 
print line.rstrip()

The main issue is that you've misspelled 'lst' in the for loop. You've used 'list' instead. 'list' is a built-in constructor for lists. You cannot split it. I'm also not sure what """ if fh == list:continue """ is supposed to achieve.

Try the following untested code:

words = []
for line in open(fname): # what if fname does not exist ?
    words.extend(line.split())
print sorted(words)
      
Regards,

JM


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