AttributeError

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Ajay Brar wrote:
> hi!
>  
> i have the following code that doesn't work
> contextForm =
> {"contextName":"test2","contextDescription":"test22","number":"1","contextName1":"test1","contextDescription1":"test11"}
>  
> if contextForm.has_key("number"):
>     num=contextForm["number"].value
>  
> the error i get is
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'value'

What do you want to retrieve? If you want to get the string "1" which is
assigned to the key "number", a simple contextForm["number"] is enough.

If you want to get the integer 1 in the string, use
int(contextForm["number"]).

Reinhold


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