I am writing code for class and I'm stuck on just one problem. I'm supposed to use the main function to call to a different function called 'file2list' which will take the file (that I brought from main) and convert it to a list. I have everything needed to create the list, I just can't get the file to run. (also I'm new to programming, so there can also be some silly errors)

This is in my main function

    #Call file2list
    vt=file2list('vt_municipalities.txt')
    nh=file2list('nh_municipalities.txt')

And then this is what my file2list function looks like

def file2list(muni_file):

    #Create lists
    muni_list=[]

    #Open files
    file=open('muni_file','r')

Basically, how can I bring the .txt file down to file2list? I get the error that muni_file doesn't exist. Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

Your error is that you are trying to open the file with the name muni_file, as you surrounded it with ', making it a string. To reference the variable that was passed into the function, remove the quotation marks (') surrounding muni_file.

The file=open line should look something like this:

file=open(muni_file,'r')

CodePudding user response：

you are passing to open() a string that contains 'muni_file' as value, to use the parameter that you recieve, you should pass without ' '