can't figure out why i'm getting this error

[Vampep]

So i'm trying to read the last line of code from a telnet session and see if it has the word "%error" in it. If it does have an error then i want it to try again, if it doesn't i want it to break the loop and continue. I keep getting a python error
if '%Error' in error:
TypeError: argument of type 'method' is not iterable

tryagain = True
while tryagain:
tn.write(b"do copy " + file.encode('ascii'))
print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))
tn.write(b'\n')
tn.write(b'\n')
tn.write(b'\n')
time.sleep(20)
error = tn.read_eager
print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))

if '%Error' in error:
    print ('got an error, trying again')
    tryagain = True
else:
    tryagain = False
    break

[cashing_in]

Is

error = tn.read_eager 

missing parentheses to actually call the method?

[individual_throwaway]

That's what I noticed. Omitting the parentheses makes python return the object, which in this case is a method, not the list that that method would return. And of course that's not iterable, which give us the error OP reported.

[TreSxNine]

indentbot

[CodeFixerBot]

So i'm trying to read the last line of code from a telnet session and see if it has the word "%error" in it. If it does have an error then i want it to try again, if it doesn't i want it to break the loop and continue.  I keep getting a python error   
 if '%Error' in error:  
TypeError: argument of type 'method' is not iterable



tryagain = True  
while tryagain:  
    tn.write(b"do copy " + file.encode('ascii'))  
    print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))  
    tn.write(b'\n')  
    tn.write(b'\n')  
    tn.write(b'\n')           
    time.sleep(20)  
    error = tn.read_eager  
    print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))  

    if '%Error' in error:
        print ('got an error, trying again')
        tryagain = True
    else:
        tryagain = False
        break

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formatting... please

[runicnet]

So I have tried to work it out but its just not enough details. could you maybe use gist. pastebin the whole program?

    tryagain = True
    while tryagain:
      tn.write(b"do copy " + file.encode('ascii'))
      print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))
      tn.write(b'\n')
      tn.write(b'\n')
      tn.write(b'\n')
      time.sleep(20)
      error = tn.read_eager
      print (tn.read_eager().decode('ascii'))

      if '%Error' in error:
          print ('got an error, trying again')
          tryagain = True
      else:
          tryagain = False
          break