Question

I am trying to create a very simple log parser script in python. Everything is going as planned except the script on the target machine is returning this error (the script works on a unix machine though quite fine):

for name in root.namelist():
Attribute Error: 'str' object has no attribute 'namelist'

Python versions appear to be the same (2.7.3 on both machines). Any ideas?

Script itself:

import zipfile
import os
import re

string1 = "searchstring" # raw_input("usrinput: ")

try:
   root = zipfile.ZipFile("/home/testuser/docs/testzip.zip", "r")
except:
   root = "testfolder/"
for name in root.namelist():
    if name.find(".") > 0:
        f = root.open(name)
        searchlines = f.readlines()
        for i, line in enumerate(searchlines):
            regex1 = "(.*)" + re.escape(string1) + "(.*)"
            if re.match (regex1, line):
                for l in searchlines[i-4:i+4]: print l,
                print

Answer 1

This is because root = "testfolder/" it doesn’t have any namelist as its attribute.

Type of root is string

Which in turn looking at your code means, root = zipfile.ZipFile("/home/testuser/docs/testzip.zip", "r") generated an exception

in exception block try to use except Exception, ex: and then print ex.message to understand the type of exception being generated