The main built 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not iterable
I am getting this error "main loop" builtin_function_or_method "object is not iterable" when I run the following code:
I have a stackoverflow search but cannot find the answer to my question ...
I have checked for typos but cannot find the error. Please help me!
import urllib2
import time
import datetime
stocksToPull = 'AAPL','GOOG','MSFT','CMG','AMZN','EBAY','TSLA'
def pullData(stock):
try:
print 'Currently pulling',stock
print str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
urlToVisit = 'http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/'+stock+'/chartdata;type=quote;range=5d/csv'
saveFileLine = stock+'.txt'
try:
readExistingData = open(saveFileLine,'r').read()
splitExisting = readExistingData.split('\n')
mostRecentLine = splitExisting[-2]
lastUnix = mostRecentLine.split(',')[0]
except:
lastUnix = 0
saveFile = open(saveFileLine,'a')
sourceCode = urllib2.urlopen(urlToVisit).read()
splitSource = sourceCode.split
for eachLine in splitSource:
splitLine = eachLine.split(',')
if len(splitLine) ==6:
if splitLine[0] > lastUnix:
if 'values' not in eachLine:
lineToWrite = eachLine+'\n'
saveFile.write(lineToWrite)
saveFile.close()
print 'Pulled',stock
print 'sleeping...'
print str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
time.sleep(300)
except Exception,e:
print 'main loop',str(e)
for eachStock in stocksToPull:
pullData(eachStock)
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Direct answer
In the code here:
saveFile = open(saveFileLine,'a')
sourceCode = urllib2.urlopen(urlToVisit).read()
splitSource = sourceCode.split
change sourceCode.split
to sourceCode.split()
.
If you want to know more about this error, read below:
When debugging, you are better off removing the try ... except block, especially the "expect Exception" block, which is so generic that you will lose track of what is going wrong.
When you remove the try ... except block and run this code again, you will get error information like this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-c4fe20f718cd> in <module>()
43
44 for eachStock in stocksToPull:
---> 45 pullData(eachStock)
<ipython-input-5-c4fe20f718cd> in pullData(stock)
23 splitSource = sourceCode.split
24
---> 25 for eachLine in splitSource:
26 splitLine = eachLine.split(',')
27 if len(splitLine) ==6:
TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not iterable
The error message TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not iterable
is associated with line 25, which means that it splitSource
is builtin_function_or_method
and is not iterable
.
What is it splitSource
? This is sourceCode.split
. Here's the answer. You have to call the method using ()
, without which you get this method. The method str.split
is obviously not iterable
!
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