Python: AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'split'

Question

I have a textfile, let\'s call it goodlines.txt and I want to load it and make a list that contains each line in the text file.

I tried using the

Answer 1

Try this:

 >>> f = open('goodlines.txt')
 >>> mylist = f.readlines()

open() function returns a file object. And for file object, there is no method like splitlines() or split(). You could use dir(f) to see all the methods of file object.