python - I'm getting the following error and can't work it out -

i'm learning python , started putting below code. i'm trying fread function working correctly i'm getting error.

i've tried few ways fix of course if don't know what's causing i'm never going fix it.

i'm hoping me out.

error

unknown@ubuntu:~$ ./attack.py -f wordfile.txt traceback (most recent call last):   file "./attack.py", line 63, in <module>     print fread(list)   file "./attack.py", line 20, in fread     flist = open(list).readlines() typeerror: coercing unicode: need string or buffer, type found` 

code

#!/usr/bin/python   import sys, getopt, socket, fileinput, traceback import dns.query, dns.message, dns.name, adns queue import queue threading import thread   def usage():     print "-h --help: help\n"     print "-f --file: file read bruteforce domain list from.\n"     print "-p --proxy: proxy address , port. e.g http://192.168.1.64:8080\n"     print "-d --domain: domain bruteforce.\n"     print "-t --thread: thread count.\n"     print "-e: turn debug on.\n"     sys.exit()  def fread(list, *args):    flist = open(list).readlines()    return flist  def addcheck(fcontent):    data =[]    c=adns.init()    sub in file:      subdomain = fcontent + domain      data[subdomain] = c.synchronous(subdomain, adns.rr.a)    return data   def main(argv):   list = none   proxy = none   domain = none   file= none   try:      opts, argv =getopt.getopt(argv, "h:f:p:d:t:e",["help", "file=", "proxy=", "domain=", "thread="])    except getopt.getopterror err:     print str(err)     usage()     sys.exit(2)    opt, arg in opts:       if opt in ("-h", "--help"):           usage()           sys.exit()       elif opt in ("-f", "--file"):           list = arg       elif opt in ("-p", "--proxy"):           proxy = arg       elif opt in ("-d", "--domain"):           domain = arg       elif opt in ("-t", "--thread"):           thread = arg       elif opt in '-e':           global _debug  print fread(list) if __name__ == "__main__":    main(sys.argv[1:]) 

you passing in list type object here:

print fread(list) 

this outside of main function, list still bound built-in type.

you meant line part of main() function. if so, indent further match rest of code in function.

you should not use list variable name, however. there built-in type of name; result indentation error gave confusing exception message. perhaps fname or filename have been better choice.