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On 24/11/2015 13:25, Cai Gengyang wrote:
>
> results = [
> {"id": 1, "name": "ensheng", "score": 10},
> {"id": 2, "name": "gengyang", "score": 12},
> {"id": 3, "name": "jordan", "score": 5},
> ]
>
> I want to find gengyang's score. This is what I tried :
>
>>>> print((results["gengyang"])["score"])
>
> but I got an error message instead :
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<pyshell#62>", line 1, in <module>
>      print((results["gengyang"])["score"])
> TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str
>
> Any ideas how to solve this? Thank you ..
>

Please read and digest the TypeError.  There is a very strong hint in 
there, follow it.  Compare the type of your data structure `results` 
with the one you've used earlier today.  Spot the difference?

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Mark Lawrence