excellent it works. tq
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:58:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [Tutor] create an xls file using data from a txt file From: wpr...@gmail.com To: tc...@hotmail.com CC: taxbot...@gmail.com; tutor@python.org On 11 May 2011 14:34, tee chwee liong <tc...@hotmail.com> wrote: hi all, thanks for this sharing. when i copy and run this code, i got this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python25/myscript/excel/sampleexcel.py", line 1, in <module> import csv File "C:/Python25/myscript/excel\csv.py", line 3, in <module> w=csv.writer(open('output.csv','w')) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'writer' Well, reading the error message, it's saying that module "csv", coming from file "C:/Python25/myscript/excel\ csv.py" has no member "writer". So, it seems you've called your test script (module) "csv" which effecitvely hid the standard python "csv" module. Try renaming your script file to something else ('testcsv.py' maybe) so its name doesn't conflict with the standard "csv" module and try again. Walter
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