Python 2: AttributeError: ‘list’ object has no attribute ‘strip’

strip() is a method for strings, you are calling it on a list, hence the error.

>>> 'strip' in dir(str)
True
>>> 'strip' in dir(list)
False

To do what you want, just do

>>> l = ['Facebook;Google+;MySpace', 'Apple;Android']
>>> l1 = [elem.strip().split(';') for elem in l]
>>> print l1
[['Facebook', 'Google+', 'MySpace'], ['Apple', 'Android']]

Since, you want the elements to be in a single list (and not a list of lists), you have two options.

  1. Create an empty list and append elements to it.
  2. Flatten the list.

To do the first, follow the code:

>>> l1 = []
>>> for elem in l:
        l1.extend(elem.strip().split(';'))  
>>> l1
['Facebook', 'Google+', 'MySpace', 'Apple', 'Android']

To do the second, use itertools.chain

>>> l1 = [elem.strip().split(';') for elem in l]
>>> print l1
[['Facebook', 'Google+', 'MySpace'], ['Apple', 'Android']]
>>> from itertools import chain
>>> list(chain(*l1))
['Facebook', 'Google+', 'MySpace', 'Apple', 'Android']

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