[Tutor] Writing back to same CSV in the next column

[Nym City]

Hi,
Thank you for your response. I fixed the parenthesis and it worked.

I made little modification below. By default the output of the gethostbyaddr module includes three item (hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist). However, in my output I just what the hostname field. So I created a list but I am not able to pull out just the [0] item from this and instead I get the following error:TypeError: 'int' object is not subscriptable. I looked up the error but most examples that I found were not applicable to my code purpose. 
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import socket

in_file = open('top500ips.csv', 'r')
out_file = open('top500ips_out.csv', 'w')

ListOfIPAddresses = []

for line in in_file:
    try:
        name = socket.gethostbyaddr(line.strip())
        ListOfIPAddresses.append(name)
        out_file.write(str(ListOfIPAddresses))[0]
    except socket.herror:
        out_file.write(line + '\t' + "No resolution available for ")

in_file.close()
out_file.close()
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Also, could you please give some explanation of '\t'. 


Thanks.


  Thank you. 


     On Sunday, August 16, 2015 5:58 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
   
 

 On 16/08/15 22:42, Nym City wrote:
> import socket
> import csv

You don't need csv, you aren't using it.

> in_file = open('top500ips.csv', 'r')
> out_file = open('top500ips_out.csv', 'w')
>
> for line in in_file:
>    try:
>        name = socket.gethostbyaddr(line.strip())
>        out_file.write(line + '\t' + (str(name))

count the parens in the line above...

>    except socket.herror:
>        out_file.write(line + '\t' + errrMsg)
>
> in_file.close()
> out_file.close()
>

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