Denis,
Using the attached file of a diagram as a frame, why is there an attribute message? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the attribute message: AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) C:\Users\vm\Desktop\apps\docs\Python\week_10\assignment_10_2_v_06.py in <module> () 11 time = line.split() # Sort time 12 ---> 13 hours = list.split(":")[5] # Sort hours 14 line = line.rstrip() 15 count[hours] = count.get(hours, 0) + 1 AttributeError: type object 'list' has no attribute 'split' In [45]: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the revised code: handle = """From stephen.marqu...@uct.ac.za Sat Jan 5 09:14:16 2008 >From lo...@media.berkeley.edu Fri Jan 4 18:10:48 2008 """.split("\n") # Snippet file data: mbox-short.txt count = dict() #fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")# Add Snippet file #handle = open (fname, 'r')# Add Snippet file for line in handle: if line.startswith("From "): time = line.split() # Sort time hours = time.split(":")[5] # Sort hours line = line.rstrip() count[hours] = count.get(hours, 0) + 1 # counter lst = [(val,key) for key,val in count.items()] print key, val URL link, http://tinyurl.com/oyd4ugp Regards, Hal -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list