TypeError: string indices must be integers

[saladgg]

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

[Larz60+]

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))

[saladgg]

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

[buran]

it looks you are getting a dict, so you can do

for student in students.values():
    if name == student["name"]:
        return student, 200

Now, the question is why you don't filter the result set from the db in the first place?

[saladgg]

@burah,
that works fine too.