How to solve AttributeError in python active_directory? - python-2.7

Question

Running the below script works for 60% of the entries from the MasterGroupList however suddenly fails with the below error. although my questions seem to be poor ou guys have been able to help me before. Any idea how I can avoid getting this error? or what is trhoughing off the script? The masterGroupList looks like:
Groups Pulled from AD
SET00 POWERUSER
SET00 USERS
SEF00 CREATORS
SEF00 USERS
...another 300 entries...
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\ks185278\OneDrive - NCR Corporation\Active Directory Access Scr
ipt\test.py", line 44, in <module>
print group.member
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\active_directory.py", line 805, in __getat
tr__
raise AttributeError
AttributeError
Code:
from active_directory import *
import os
file = open("C:\Users\NAME\Active Directory Access Script\MasterGroupList.txt", "r")
fileAsList = file.readlines()
indexOfTitle = fileAsList.index("Groups Pulled from AD\n")
i = indexOfTitle + 1
while i <= len(fileAsList):
fileLocation = 'C:\\AD Access\\%s\\%s.txt' % (fileAsList[i][:5], fileAsList[i][:fileAsList[i].find("\n")])
#Creates the dir if it does not exist already
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(fileLocation)):
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(fileLocation))
fileGroup = open(fileLocation, "w+")
#writes group members to the open file
group = find_group(fileAsList[i][:fileAsList[i].find("\n")])
print group.member
for group_member in group.member: #this is line 44
fileGroup.write(group_member.cn + "\n")
fileGroup.close()
i+=1

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I don't know python, but I know Active Directory fairly well.
If it's failing on this:
for group_member in group.member:
It could possibly mean that the group has no members.
Depending on how phython handles this, it could also mean that the group has only one member and group.member is a plain string rather than an array.
What does print group.member show?
The source code of active_directory.py is here: https://github.com/tjguk/active_directory/blob/master/active_directory.py
These are the relevant lines:
if name not in self._delegate_map:
try:
attr = getattr(self.com_object, name)
except AttributeError:
try:
attr = self.com_object.Get(name)
except:
raise AttributeError
So it looks like it just can't find the attribute you're looking up, which in this case looks like the 'member' attribute.