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On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:34:53 +0200, Nick the Gr33k 
<nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see, but because of the traceback not being to express it more 
easily 
> i was under the impression that data wasn't what i expected it to 
be.

Exactly. So why didn't you act on that impression?

Your error message told you that data was a method, and that a method 
is not iterable. The previous line is where you assigned it.

Try debugging this:

infile = open("myfile.txt")
data = infile.readlines
 for line in data:
    print(line)

Not on a server. On your own machine.

-- 
DaveA