Changing variable to integer

[Diez B. Roggisch]

vertigo schrieb:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I receive such error:
> File "p4.py", line 24, in PrintWordCountFloat
>     print "%s %f" % (word,words[word])
> TypeError: list indices must be integers
> 
> i call PrintWordCountFloat with hash table, keys are words(string) and 
> values float.
> This part of the code:
> 
> def PrintWordCountFloat(words):
>     number = 0
>     for word in words:
>         print "%s %f" % (word,words[word]) #line 24
>         number = number + 1
>     print "Total words: %d" %(number)
> 
> My function displays whole table correctly, and after that i receive 
> mentioned error.
> Why ? Where is the problem  ?

words is a list. If your variable names mean anything, I presume that 
word is ... well, a word, thus a string. But you can't do

[1,2,4]['some_word']

That only works on dictionaries, like this:

{'some_word' : 100}['some_word']

Diez