On Jul 9, 10:02 am, "Richard Brodie" <r.bro...@rl.ac.uk> wrote: > "Nick" <nleio...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:e54c4461-c0b7-42fb-8542-cefd7bf5f...@h18g2000yqj.googlegroups.com... > > > file = open(prefix1) > > text = file.readlines() > > len = len(text) > > You have redefined two built-in functions "file" and "len" in the first three > lines. > This is usually considered poor practice. Stick to meaningless variable names, > it's safer (only joking). > > TypeError: 'int' object is not callable". This means that something you > thought > was a function is in fact an integer. It's helpful to post/look at the line > number of > the error; "how is this line failing", is much easier to answer than > "how is my program failing". > > print len(fields) > > Here len is an integer, because you redefined it in line 3. I'm guessing this > is the > problem.
thanks for spotting the obvious errors, its my 2nd day programming python in about 3 years. fridrick, code should be workable with the exception of the errors...thats the whole program Thanks again for all the help problem fixed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
