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I made a python script to take data from a file, visit a web site using the data in the request, and save a specific text returned from the site in another file.

But I'm getting a TypeError: 'str' object is not callable and don't know how to solve it.

PS: I'm still learning python, and this is the first script I ever made.

from urllib.request import urlopen
import requests
 # for Python 3: from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os
import urllib.request


#x=open("demofile.txt", "r")
#with open('demofile.txt', 'r') as fx:
#   for line in fx
     
with open('demofile.txt', 'r') as fx:

 for lines in fx.readlines():
  with urllib.request.urlopen('http://api1.5sim.net/stubs/handler_api.php?api_key=XXXXXXX&action=getStatus&id='+lines) as data:
   soup = BeautifulSoup(data.read(),'lxml').text
   xt =soup.split(':')[1]
   with open ('pin.txt','w')as writer:
     for pins in xt:
	     writer.writelines(pins)
   print(xt)
   

markayala Wrote:I'm getting a TypeError: 'str' object is not callable and don't know how to solve it.

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