Mar-06-2017, 02:38 PM
I am working on a program and this is what I have:
def reverse(): global positions global uniqueWords uniqueWords = uniqueWords.split() newSentence = [] positions = list(map(int,positions.split())) file3 = open("original.txt","w") for i in positions: newSentence.append(uniqueWords[i-1]) newSentence = " ".join(newSentence) file3.write(newSentence) file3.close() print(uniqueWords) return file1 = open("words.txt", "w") file2 = open("positions.txt", "w") sentence = input("What is your sentence?: ") sentence = sentence.split() words = sentence positions = [0] uniqueWords = [] for i in words: if i not in uniqueWords: uniqueWords.append(i) uniqueWords = " ".join(uniqueWords) file1.write(uniqueWords) file1.close() for count, i in enumerate(sentence): if sentence.count(i) < 2: positions.append(max(positions) + 1) else: positions.append(sentence.index(i) + 1) positions.remove(0) positions = " ".join(map(str, positions)) file2.write(positions) file2.close() option = input("Would you like to convert your sentence back to its original form? ") if option in ["yEs","yeS","yES","YEs","Yes","yes","YES","y","Y"]: reverse()However, I keep getting an error message which says:
Error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\\HUHTA-FPS0001\Claitusers$\huhta-clait53\documents\Phillip Holmes\Programs\Task3\Task3v4.py", line 39, in <module>
reverse()
File "\\HUHTA-FPS0001\Claitusers$\huhta-clait53\documents\Phillip Holmes\Programs\Task3\Task3v4.py", line 9, in reverse
newSentence.append(uniqueWords[i-1])
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'append'
>>>
Please help