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Deuce Tigner
Deuce Tigner

Reputation: 11

Split() function is giving me trouble

stl = ["one two three four five six"]    
print(stl)

stl = stl.split()    
print(stl)

This is in python 3. It says that:

list object has no attribute 'split'

I want it to give the reg string then when asked to print it again it will give it as a list.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 56

Answers (3)

Pugna
Pugna

Reputation: 57

Try this one :

stl = ["one two three four five six"]    
print(stl)

stl = stl[0].split()    
print(stl)

Upvotes: 0

elecdrone
elecdrone

Reputation: 13

You've answered your own question (or, rather, the interpreter has answered it for you.) As the error message says, the list object has no attribute (i.e., method) named 'split'. Perhaps you meant to say

 stl = "one two three four five six"

which creates a string variable and assigns it to 'stl', rather than

 stl = ["one two three four five six"]

which creates a list variable containing 1 string element. The first form above would have produced the result that you were (presumably) looking for.

BTW, I'm not sure of the details (someone here can probably elaborate,) but you should use 'list_stack = list()' instead of 'list_stack = []' to create a new list. I believe the latter form will produce nasty surprises in some cases.

Upvotes: 1

Thane Plummer
Thane Plummer

Reputation: 10218

You are trying to split a list. split() is a string function, but not a list function. To split the string in your list you can index the first element (a string) and call split on that. 

>>> stl[0].split()
['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six']

Upvotes: 2

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