TypeError: list indices must be integers, not dict

Question

My json file look likes this and I\'m trying to access the element syslog in a for loop.

{
  \"cleanup\":{
    \"folderpath\":\"/home/FBML7HR/lo         


        

Answer 1

You are looping over the values in the list referenced by data['execution'], not indices.

Just use those values (dictionaries) directly:

for i in data['execution']:
    cmd = i['test_case']['scriptname']

You probably want to give that a more meaningful loop name:

for entry in data['execution']:
    cmd = entry['test_case']['scriptname']