E1136 unsubscriptable-object

Message

"Value '%s' is unsubscriptable"

Description

Emitted when a subscripted value doesn’t support subscription (i.e. doesn’t define __getitem__ method or __class_getitem__ for a class).

Example

In the following example, the integer value 1 does not support the subscript access var[0].

def example():
    var = 1
    return var[0]

3:11: E1136: Value 'var' is unsubscriptable

False positives

This check is suspectible to false positive results, because it relies on pylint’s inference system.

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