https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249572#M48041 <P>For me it happened because source csv file was generated with python without opening file with option <CODE>newline=""</CODE>, so when I open it on for example Google Sheets, it looks like this: </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1561i8AA769C7EE427E45/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>Probably that empty rows are "NoneType".</P> <P>UPD. Also, when I fixed empty rows, it still refused to upload file using Chrome on Windows. When I tried to do that using Firefox it was finally successful.</P> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:53:37 GMT bunyk 2017-08-22T14:53:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249567#M48036 <P>I get this error whenever I try to upload a log file. What is the problem?</P> <PRE><CODE>ERROR : cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects </CODE></PRE> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:18:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249567#M48036 hayloiuy 2016-07-08T13:18:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249568#M48037 <P>How are you uploading (I assume from the "Add Data" option from the launcher, or a similar method, and not from a UF)?</P> <P>Does this happen with <STRONG>any</STRONG> file, and if not, what is in the file?</P> Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:10:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249568#M48037 cpetterborg 2016-07-11T02:10:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249569#M48038 <P>No problem now. I just changed the file type to .log.</P> Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:31:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249569#M48038 hayloiuy 2016-07-11T09:31:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249570#M48039 <P>Was that a .csv file or a .log file with an incorrect file extension?</P> Sun, 09 Jul 2017 18:33:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249570#M48039 ralphreijs 2017-07-09T18:33:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249571#M48040 <P>To me it happened with every file, and every file type.<BR /> Changing browser from Safari to Firefox fixed it.</P> Sun, 09 Jul 2017 18:37:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249571#M48040 ralphreijs 2017-07-09T18:37:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249572#M48041 <P>For me it happened because source csv file was generated with python without opening file with option <CODE>newline=""</CODE>, so when I open it on for example Google Sheets, it looks like this: </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1561i8AA769C7EE427E45/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>Probably that empty rows are "NoneType".</P> <P>UPD. Also, when I fixed empty rows, it still refused to upload file using Chrome on Windows. When I tried to do that using Firefox it was finally successful.</P> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:53:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-do-I-get-quot-ERROR-cannot-concatenate-str-and-NoneType/m-p/249572#M48041 bunyk 2017-08-22T14:53:37Z