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TypeError: string indices must be integers - saladgg - Sep-29-2018
Am learning to create a python API. I want to get a return a student object whenever there's a match of student name when I loop through the students data.
Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I get the error TypeError: string indices must be integers
class Student(Resource):
#get student by name
def get(self, name):
for student in students:
if name == student["name"]:
return student, 200
return "student not found", 404
RE: TypeError: string indices must be integers - Larz60+ - Sep-29-2018
name = '404' would be a string, name = 404 an integer.
It's requesting an integer, not string.
when in doubt, you can find out what the type is with print(type(name))
RE: TypeError: string indices must be integers - saladgg - Sep-30-2018
I may have left out some important info. I am using firebase realtime db.
This solved my problem. I was supposed to loop through by means of key,value.
class Student(Resource):
dbStudents = db.reference("/students")
students = dbStudents.get()
def get(self, name):
for key, value in students.items():
if name == value["name"]:
return value, 200
return "student not found", 404
RE: TypeError: string indices must be integers - buran - Oct-01-2018
it looks you are getting a dict, so you can do
for student in students.values():
if name == student["name"]:
return student, 200Now, the question is why you don't filter the result set from the db in the first place?
RE: TypeError: string indices must be integers - saladgg - Oct-03-2018
@burah,
that works fine too.
