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Simple solutions for the attributeerror: ‘_io.textiowrapper’ object has no attribute ‘split’ error

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I get an error

>>> f = open('goodlines.txt')
 >>> mylist = f.splitlines()
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'splitlines'
 >>> mylist = f.split()
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'split'

when trying to use the split() procedure for my project. How to fix the attributeerror: ‘_io.textiowrapper’ object has no attribute ‘split’ error? Please give me some advice.

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  1. Best Answer
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    The cause: The problem that cause the attributeerror: ‘_io.textiowrapper’ object has no attribute ‘split’ is that you’re not reading the file’s data. An open file object is being used with str methods.

    Solution: 

    Simply using list() on the file object allows you to read a file in a list of lines form:

    ith open('goodlines.txt') as f:
mylist = list(f)

    The newline characters are included here. These can be removed from a list comprehension:

    with open('goodlines.txt') as f:

mylist = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f]
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  2. This is what you can do: 

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

    open() returns a file object. There is no splitlines() or split() method for file object. To see all methods of file object, you could use dir(f)

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