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

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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

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A list is a chain of spaces that can be indexed by  0  1  2      etc   So if players was a list  players 0  or players 1  would have worked  If players is a dictionary  players  name   would have worked

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players is a list which needs to be indexed by integers   You seem to be using it like a dictionary   Maybe you could use unpacking -- Something like   name  score   player    if the player list is always a constant length    There s not much more advice we can give you without knowing what query is and how it works   It s worth pointing out that the entire code you posted doesn t make a whole lot of sense   There s an IndentationError on the second line   Also  your function is looping over some iterable  but unconditionally returning during the first iteration which isn t usually what you actually want to do

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Were you expecting player to be a dict rather than a list    gt  gt  gt  player  1 2 3   gt  gt  gt  player  score   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  TypeError  list indices must be integers  not str  gt  gt  gt  player   score  1   age   2   foo  3   gt  gt  gt  player  score   1

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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

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

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