AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split' cannot figure out error

Question

The question is to keep asking a person to say their favorite websites and stops after they type done. We want to extract the "www." and ".com" and appends that part to a list and finally print the list. I can't figure out what im doing wrong.

myweb=[]
while True:
    mywebsite=input("what is your favorite website?")
    if mywebsite=="done":
        print(myweb)
        break
    else:
        myweb.append(mywebsite)
        continue
mywebsite=mywebsite.split('www.')
mywebsite=mywebsite.split('.com')
print(mywebsite)

Answer 1

based on your question, i make this function

myweb=[]
while True:
    mywebsite=input("what is your favorite website?")
    if mywebsite=="done":
        print(myweb)
        break
    else:
        myweb.append(mywebsite)
        continue

# allocating enough space
mywebsite = [0]*len(myweb)

# extract it
for i in range(len(myweb)):
    # split based on www.domain.com
    mywebsite[i] = myweb[i].split('.')[1]

print(mywebsite)

Answer 2

Use regex on each item in your list

>>> import re
>>> website = 'www.amazon.com'
>>> website = re.search('www\.(.*)\.com',website).group(1)
>>> website
'amazon'

Answer 3

if all the input 's pattern is www.SOME_WEB_SITES.com, so you can use

websites = [ '.'.join(x.split('.')[1:-1]) for x in a]

Think about the subdomain cases too, for example:

www.a.com --> a

www.abcom --> ab

x.split('.')[1:-1] # we will get an array ["a","b"]
'.'.join(....) # we need to join them by .

Answer 4

You use a python strings .strip() function to do this.

myweb=[]
while True:
    mywebsite=input("what is your favorite website?")
    if mywebsite=="done":
        for x in myweb:
            print(x.strip("www." + ".com")) #Strips www. and .com from the string.
        break
    else:
        myweb.append(mywebsite)

Answer 5

This can be easily done using regular expressions. However it looks like you are new to python. So the following corrected code might help you out.

myweb_name=[]
while True:
    mywebsite=input("what is your favorite website?")
    if mywebsite=="done":
        break
    else:
        myweb_name.append(mywebsite.split('www.')[1] # remove the www part
                        .split('.com')[0]) # remove the .com part
        continue
print(myweb_name)