Ethan, Thanks for pointing that out. I commented that code out and then ran it.
It created the list of names. Now, I just need to figure out how to get the scores into the list called scores. It would appear that this is done with a nested for loop. Thanks, John On 3/28/11 12:02 PM, "Ethan Furman" <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > John Parker wrote: >> I have written the following code so far but get an error. >> >> infile = open("scores.txt", "r") >> lines = infile.readlines() >> infile.close() >> tokens = lines.split(",") > > [snip] > >> error: >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "Score_8.py", line 38, in <module> >> tokens = lines.split(",") >> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split' > > Check out the line just above my snip. > > Did you mean for that line to be there? It's /almost/ the same line you > have down in the for loop. > > ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list