Keep getting error 'list' object has no attribute 'split'

Question

Keep getting this split error, when trying to split up my list Word by Word, line by line.

I got a file which contains links, +20000 links. These links is in a list call

Answer 1

First thing - as Martijn Pieters said, your indentation is off. Its hard to guess exactly what you mean, please fix it. But:

paths = [line.strip().split('\t') for line in tsv]  

line.split('\t') already returns a list. You put that list into path so path is a list of lists. You iterate over that list of lists here:

for line in newPath:
   links.append(line[3:4])

so links will also be a list of lists. And finally:

for i in links:
   newList.append(i.split(';'))

you try to call split for i - which is a list. split is a member function of str and does not exist for lists - hence your error.