I'm trying to take an existing process:

if self.path_object is not None:
    dictpath = {}
    for path in self.path_object:
        self.params = path.pathval.split("?")[0]
        self.params = path.pathval.split("&", 2)
        if path.pathval.contains(self.params):
            out = list(map(lambda v: v.split("=")[0] +"=" + str(self.fuzz_vectors), self.params))
        else:
            pass
        dictpath[path] = out
    print dictpath

I added the sub-if/else block in, but it is failing, stating:

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'contains'

on the if block .

How can I fix it?

I'm simply trying to do:

if the path.pathval has either ? or & in it:
   add to dictionary
else:
    pass #forget about it.

Thanks!