NoneType in python

Question

I was trying to get some rating data from Tripadvisor but as i was trying to fetch the data i was getting

\'NoneType\' object is not subscriptable

Answer 1

It means that not all divs with a class of rating have images with an alt attribute. You should handle this appropriately - to ignore such cases, just wrap your print (rate.img['alt']) in a try, except block, or check to see if rate.img is None first.

First option:

try:
    print(rate.img['alt'])
except TypeError:
    print('Rating error')

Second option:

for rate in soup.find_all('div',{"class":"rating"}):
    if rate.img is not None:
        print (rate.img['alt'])

The first option follows EAFP (Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission), a common Python coding style, whereas the second follows LBYL (Look before you leap). In this case, I would suggest the second.