Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'ok.': 0.07; "subject:' ": 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'imports': 0.09; 'iterate': 0.09; 'subject:iterable': 0.09; 'typeerror:': 0.09; 'subject:not': 0.11; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:python': 0.16; 'from:name:mrab': 0.16; 'message-id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'received:84.93': 0.16; 'received:84.93.230': 0.16; 'subject:object': 0.16; 'why:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'why.': 0.17; 'code,': 0.18; 'this:': 0.23; 'pass': 0.25; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'appear': 0.26; 'wrote': 0.26; 'list:': 0.27; 'piece': 0.29; 'saves': 0.30; 'error': 0.30; 'received:84': 0.32; 'print': 0.32; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.33; 'excel': 0.33; 'me?': 0.33; "can't": 0.34; 'list': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'data': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'object': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'help': 0.40; 'range': 0.60; 'here': 0.65; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.68; 'reply- to:no real name:2**0': 0.72; 'float,': 0.84; 'reply- to:addr:python.org': 0.84; 'ana': 0.91 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=HO4d4PRv c=1 sm=1 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=B68SgI_Jlq8A:10 a=_yxKM6GybEgA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=OUOv7kDek9cA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=8AHkEIZyAAAA:8 a=9K3glyaPVLkA:10 a=e049oSjzyXoL1lSOmXwA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 X-AUTH: mrabarnett:2500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:43:48 +0000 From: MRAB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: TypeError: 'float' object is not iterable References: <3984882c-0144-47ba-af4f-b29877bc4698@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <3984882c-0144-47ba-af4f-b29877bc4698@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: python-list@python.org List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1363257819 news.xs4all.nl 6922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48458 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41223 On 14/03/2013 10:12, Ana Dionísio wrote: > Hi!! > > I keep having this error and I don't know why: TypeError: 'float' object is not iterable. > > I have this piece of code, that imports to python some data from Excel and saves it in a list: > > " > t_amb = [] > > for i in range(sh2.nrows): > t_amb.append(sh2.cell(i,2).value) > > print t_amb > > " > Here is everything ok. > > But then, I need to pass the data again to exel, so I wrote this: > > " > a=8 > for b in range (len(t_amb)): > a=8 > for d in t_amb[b]: > a=a+1 > sheet.write(a,b+1,d) > " > > The error appear in "for d in t_amb[b]:" and I don't understand why. Can you help me? > t_amb is a list of float, so t_amb[b] is a float, but you can't iterate over a float.