TypeError: string indices must be integers when using json file in python

Question

I'm trying to count the number of national holidays N in each city in a .json file and I keep getting the error TypeError: string indices must be integers .

I've read a bunch of other posts about this error and I can't really find anything that helps. I'm assuming its related to how I'm pulling the .json file? (encoding for non-english letters in file)

import json

world_hol_data = json.load(open("holiday_data.json", "r", encoding="utf8"))


total_national_hol = 0

for cont in world_hol_data:
    for city in cont:
        if city["type"] == "N":
            total_national_hol += 1
print(total_national_hol)

Answer 1

Please first check your data variable to see what you received there. I guess at least a list containing with string whereas it should be a list of dictionaries.