Question

I’m writing a program that looks through CSVs in a directory and appends the contents of each CSV to a list. Here’s a snippet of the offending code:

import glob
import re 

c = glob.glob("*.csv")
print c
archive = []

for element in c:
    look = open(element, "r").read()
    open = re.split("\n+", look)

    for n in open:
        n = re.split(",", n)[0]
        archive.append(n)

However, when I run this script, I get a TypeError: 'list' object is not callable. Can somebody please explain what’s going on?

Answer 1

I think it’s because you redefine open as a list and call it in the next loop iteration.
Just give the list another name.

Note that strings have a split() method for when you don’t need a regex.