从字典中检索信息

Question

I'm having hard time trying to read my dictionary variable. Python keeps throwing the following error:

TypeError: string indices must be integers

This is a sample that should give you an idea of what my problem is:

self.dict = {}
self.dict['User'] = 'User_name'
self.dict['Dir'] = 'user_home_dir'
self.dict['userID'] = 1

if self.dict['userID'] == 1:    # this is the line that is said to contain an error
    then do somethin ...

This is all I get as a Traceback:

user_id = self.dict['userID']
TypeError: string indices must be integers

No I'm positive that self.dict is not a string.

It's being created in a function called createUser and it's being returned to the main thread.

def createUser(self):
    self.dict = {}

    ... user inputs information ...
    ... and then information is inserted into self.dict ...

    self.dict['User'] = self.lineEdit_User.text()
    self.dict['Dir'] = self.lineEdit_path.text()
    self.dict['userID'] = int(self.lineEdit_ID.text())

    return self.dict

After that self.dict is only referenced for reading data from it.

Answer 1

I've found the problem, and it was in my signal definition. Dictionary 'self.dict' is being returned via pyqtSignal which was defined like this:

addUser = pyqtSignal(object)

After thorough examination of my code I've figured out that I should change it to:

addUser = pyqtSignal(dict)

and once I did that it was all right. Once again, thanks everyone for their contribution.