string indices must be integers while parsing JSON - python -

i new python , facing error: string indices must integers while parsing json file.

json file:

{"nflteams": [   {"code":"ari","fullname":"arizona cardinals","shortname":"arizona"},   {"code":"atl","fullname":"atlanta falcons","shortname":"atlanta"},   {"code":"was","fullname":"washington redskins","shortname":"washington"} ]} 

my code:

import urllib.request ur import urllib.parse import json  url = 'http://www.fantasyfootballnerd.com/service/nfl-teams/json/test/' user_agent = 'mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 6.1; win64; x64)' values = {'name' : 'michael foord',           'location' : 'northampton',           'language' : 'python' } headers = { 'user-agent' : user_agent }  data = urllib.parse.urlencode(values) data = data.encode('ascii') req = urllib.request.request(url, data, headers) response = urllib.request.urlopen(req) the_page = response.read().decode('utf-8')  print (the_page) team_data = json.loads(the_page)  print (type(team_data))  // team_data type dict  item in team_data:     print (item['nflteams'][0]["code"])     print (item['nflteams'][0]['fullname'])     print (item['nflteams'][0]['shortname']) 

i have tried print following:

print (item['nflteams']["code"])  

and this:

for item in team_data['nflteams'].values():     print (item["code"])     print (item['fullname'])     print (item['shortname']) 

which gives me error:

for item in team_data['nflteams'].values(): attributeerror: 'list' object has no attribute 'values' 

can please me figure out what's going on? thank you.

.values() used loop through values of dictionary however, team_data['nflteams'] list containing dictionaries. thus, need remove .values() access each dictionary whilst iterating:

for item in team_data['nflteams']:     print (item["code"])     print (item['fullname'])     print (item['shortname']) 

if want use .values():

for item in team_data.values()[0]:     print (item["code"])     print (item['fullname'])     print (item['shortname']) 

please keep in mind .values() returns view object in python 3.x, need force evaluating using list() in order access elements index:

for item in list(team_data.values())[0]: