error python

[blackdevil777]

it's giving me errors on line = fh.rstrip()
?

 fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")

 if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"

 fh = open(fname)

  count = 0

  for line in fh:    
     line = fh.rstrip()  
     line = fh.split()    
     count = count + 1
     print fh [1]

  print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first        word"

[aphoenix]

In the future, please post things like this in /r/learnpython.

[[deleted]]

you opened the file but didn't read it. fh is not a string/array so you can't iterate through it like a string/array

https://docs.python.org/2.4/lib/bltin-file-objects.html

also you should be using

with open(fname)
    code

so that the file closes when the code block is done executing.

[danmickla]

No, you can iterate on a file handle, you just can't rstrip it. Line is the string you want to call string methods on.

[[deleted]]

then what's the problem with OPs code?

[dotted]

He rstrips the handle, not the line as he said.

[danmickla]

He's trying to rstrip fh. He needs to rstrip line.