How to Fix TypeError: string indices must be integers while Parsing JSON in Python

TypeError: string indices must be integers while parsing JSON, which typically occurs when you try to access a JSON string like a dictionary or list using brackets [] with an index inside.

To fix this error, use the “json.loads()” function to convert a json string into a dictionary object and then access the dictionary object’s value using the “[]”.

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Flowchart of Fixing TypeError: string indices must be integers Python json

Reproducing the error

Reproducing the error

import pandas as pd

json_string = '{"car": "bmw", "price": "100000"}'

print(json_string["car"]) 

Output

TypeError: string indices must be integers

How to fix it?

Converting json string to dictionary

import json

json_string = '{"car": "bmw", "price": "100000"}'

dict = json.loads(json_string)

print(dict["car"])

Output

bmw

And we get the perfect output without any errors.

You can use the string methods such as string.index() or string.find() to find a specific character or substring within the string.

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