How do I write a code that prints the first word of every line expect the first line? Stuck

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im trying to print the first word of very line (expect the first line) but i keep getting synthax error. It's from a text file i created. Here is the code/text

We are hungry.
There is an apple.
There is an orange.
Now we are thirsty.

What I have tried:

Python

filename = "firstthing.txt" 
file = open(filename)
text = file.read
lines = text.split('\n')

for line in lines:
     line.split(" ",1)[0]
     print " There are the lines:"

What am i doing wrong? How do i write it properly?

Posted 20-Mar-18 10:41am

Member 13693496

Updated 20-Mar-18 22:38pm

PIEBALDconsult

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Maarten Kools 20-Mar-18 18:02pm

What's your syntax error? Not sure if you're actually doing it (your code isn't formatted in your question), but you need to indent the code block for the for loop, see also https://wiki.python.org/moin/ForLoop

Member 13693496 20-Mar-18 18:23pm

it won't let me indent it and the synthax error was 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'split'. I dont know why it is saying that but do you have any clue on how to properly write the code because mines seems right yet an error..

Maarten Kools 20-Mar-18 18:26pm

oh, so it's on the first split probably. Try file.read()

Member 13693496 20-Mar-18 20:33pm

yea i have and still no solution

PIEBALDconsult 20-Mar-18 21:55pm

I don't know Python, but I'm reasonably sure you need parentheses on the call to read .

Richard MacCutchan 21-Mar-18 4:59am

Just tried your code and it works fine. But see PIEBALDconsult's comment above.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2018-03-20T22:39:00

Solution 1

Based on these:
python - How to skip first element in `for` loop? - Stack Overflow[^]
Skip first entry in for loop in python? - Stack Overflow[^]
you need to use next function[^]

Python

lines = text.split('\n')
next(lines)
for line in lines:
     print line.split(" ",1)[0]

Posted 20-Mar-18 22:39pm

Maciej Los