Python - Looping over a DICT and getting a TraceBack Error

Question

I have created a DICT with BeautifulSoup with a length of 42. I am trying to extract the text from the tag and I know that some at the end are blank. When I enter player[42].text it returns a blank from REPL, but when I call it in a loop I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>

  File "/Users/Brad/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bs4/element.py", line 997, in __getitem__

    return self.attrs[key]

KeyError: 0

Code:

for player in players:

    name = player[0].text.strip()

    print(name)

I have looked all over Google and Stackoverflow and found a few If statements to try, but still not luck.

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Answer 1

The for loop iterates over the items in players assigning to player each item in turn. When trying to index that with player[0] BeautifulSoup treats it as an attribute lookup using the attribute name 0. There is no attribute named 0 in the player tag so the lookup fails and KeyError is raised.

You should loop like this:

for player in players:
    name = player.text.strip()
    print(name)

Python - Looping over a DICT and getting a TraceBack Error

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