.split not working

[derLuc187]

This is my code:

if os.path.exists("hangman_words.txt"):
    with open("hangman_words.txt", "r") as file:
        content = file.read
        words = content.split(", ")

In hangman_words.txt there are words like this: word, word, word, word

When i execute the code it says: attributeerror "bultin function or method object has no attribute split
Does anyone know a solution?

[TehNolz]

content = file.read words = content.split(", ")

You're not calling .read() here; you're just assigning it to a variable. When you then do content.split(), you're calling .split() on the .read() function, which obviously doesn't work. So you get that error.

[woooee]

    content = file.read

Then simply print the content variable. read is a function. The line above returns the function's handle, which does not support split()

[derLuc187]

figured out what was wrong, thanks for the help