Python TypeError: 'set' object is not subscriptable
Like @Carcigenicate says in the comment, sets cannot be indexed due to its unordered nature in Python. Instead, you can use itertools.islice
in a while
loop to get 200 items at a time from the iterator created from the given set:
from itertools import islice
def create(ids):
policy = {
'Statement': []
}
i = iter(ids)
while True:
chunk = list(islice(i, 200))
if not chunk:
break
policy['Statement'].append({
'Principal': {
'AWS': list(map(lambda id: f"arn:aws:iam::{id}:root", chunk))
}
})
return policy
As per the Python's Official Documentation, set
data structure is referred as Unordered Collections of Unique Elements
and that doesn't support operations like indexing or slicing etc.
Like other collections, sets support x in set, len(set), and for x in set. Being an unordered collection, sets do not record element position or order of insertion. Accordingly, sets do not support indexing, slicing, or other sequence-like behavior.
When you define temp_set = {1, 2, 3}
it just implies that temp_set
contains 3 elements but there's no index that can be obtained
>>> temp_set = {1,2,3}
>>> 1 in temp_set
>>> True
>>> temp_set[0]
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3326, in run_code
exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
File "<ipython-input-10-50885e8b29cf>", line 1, in <module>
temp_set[0]
TypeError: 'set' object is not subscriptable
I faced the same problem when dealing with list in python
In python list is defined with square brackets and not curly brackets
wrong List {1,2,3}
Right List [1,2,3]
This link elaborates more about list https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_lists.asp