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I am learning python and I wrote a script that copies the content of one text file to another. Here is my code. from sys import argv out_file = open(argv[2], 'w').write(open(argv[1]).read()) out_file.close() I get the AttributeError listed on the title. Why is it that wen I call the write method on open(argv[2], 'w') the out_file is not assigned a File type? Thank you in advance out_file is being assigned to the return value of the write method, which is None . Break the statement into two: out_file = open(argv[2], 'w') out_file.write(open(argv[1]).read()) out_file.close() And really, it'd be

Using Python 2.7.3.1 I don't understand what the problem is with my coding! I get this error: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split This is my code: myList = ['hello'] myList.split() You can simply do list(myList[0]) as below: >>> myList = ['hello'] >>> myList=list(myList[0]) >>> myList ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] See documentation here To achieve what you are looking for: myList = ['hello'] result = [c for c in myList[0]] # a list comprehension >>> print result ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] More info on list comprehensions: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/list_comprehensions.hawk

Using django. I have the following model: class Postagem(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, editable=False) descricao = models.CharField(max_length=50) area = models.ForeignKey('core.Area', null=True) user = models.ForeignKey('User') categoria = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True) post = models.FileField(upload_to='posts/', null=True) thumbnail = models.FileField(upload_to='posts/', null=True) def __str__(self): return self.descricao The Following form: class PostForm(forms.ModelForm): categoria = forms.ChoiceField(choices=[("Video","Vídeo"),("Audio","Aúdio"),(

I am creating a method in a class in a module mod1 and calling it as follows: class blahblah: def foobar(self, bvar, **dvar) //// return dvar And calling it as: obj1 = mod1.blahblah() dvar1 = obj1.foobar(True, **somedictionary) It throws a Attribute error: blahblah has no attribute named foobar Could you please help me with it? Thanks in advance The type of error you describe can be caused simply by mismatched indentation. If the method is at the very bottom of your class, move it up in the class a bit and the problem will become apparent. When python interpreters run into mismatched indents

I'm trying to scrape some javascript-generated content from a Chinese-language website. I'm using Selenium (and Python) since I can't scrape the javascript content directly. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.selenium import selenium import time import urllib2 import httplib import urllib import re import base64 browser = webdriver.Firefox() # Get local session of firefox browser.get("http://www...") # Load page (redacted here, but any works) browser.get_body_text() #Attempt to scrape body text And I get the