AttributeError：“ builtin_function_or_method”对象没有属性“ split” 3.7

Question

I need help to fix this code:

import urllib.request,urllib.parse,urllib.error
    fhand = urllib.request.urlopen("http://data.pr4e.org//romeo.txt")
    counts = dict ()
    for line in fhand:
        lines = line.decode.split()
        for words in lines:
            counts[words] = counts.get(words,0)+1
    print(counts)

I am getting this error while running this code:

C:\Users\g.p\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32>py urllib2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "urllib2.py", line 5, in <module>
    lines = line.decode.split()
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'split'

Answer 1

you should run decode function, otherwise, it will be the built-in function not str , so you cannot split the function

You should write like this:

lines = line.decode().split()

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