Python error when trying to access list by index - "List indices must be integers, not str"

Question

I have the following Python code :

currentPlayers = query.getPlayers()     for player in currentPlayers:         return str(player['name'])+" "+str(player['score']) 

And I'm getting the following error:

TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

I've been looking for an error close to mine, but not sure how to do it, never got that error. So yeah, how can I transform it to integers instead of string? I guess the problem comes from str(player['score']).

Answer 1

Were you expecting player to be a dict rather than a list?

>>> player=[1,2,3] >>> player["score"] Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str >>> player={'score':1, 'age': 2, "foo":3} >>> player['score'] 1 

Answer 2

player['score'] is your problem. player is apparently a list which means that there is no 'score' element. Instead you would do something like:

name, score = player[0], player[1] return name + ' ' + str(score) 

Of course, you would have to know the list indices (those are the 0 and 1 in my example).

Something like player['score'] is allowed in python, but player would have to be a dict.

You can read more about both lists and dicts in the python documentation.