Question

Erm, I have ready-to-use code, and I’m sure it really works, but I get the following error:

TypeError: descriptor ‘split’ requires a ‘str’ object but received a
‘unicode’

That’s the whole def:

def assemblePacket(self, type):
    ipSplit = str.split(self.serverVars[0], '.')

    packet = 'SAMP'
    packet += chr(int(ipSplit[0]))
    packet += chr(int(ipSplit[1]))
    packet += chr(int(ipSplit[2]))
    packet += chr(int(ipSplit[3]))
    packet += chr(self.serverVars[1] & 0xFF)
    packet += chr(self.serverVars[1] >> 8 & 0xFF)
    packet += type

    return packet

And here is the problem:

ipSplit = str.split(self.serverVars[0], '.')

I’m sure it’s not because of the code, I’ve tried it before (the same script) and it worked. No idea why it doesn’t now.And this “unicode” makes me think I have to change “str.split”, but hmmm. Waiting for opinions 🙂

Answer 1

The problem is that str.split is a method of the str class, but is being called for an object of the unicode class. Call the method directly with ipSplit = self.serverVars[0].split('.') to have it work for anything (including str and unicode) with a split method.