Python error when trying to access list by index – “List indices must be integers, not str”

Were you expecting player to be a dict rather than a list?

>>> player=[1,2,3]
>>> player["score"]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str
>>> player={'score':1, 'age': 2, "foo":3}
>>> player['score']
1