Python3 Error: TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Question

I'd like to get the latest posts id from a subreddit. Reddit is have basic api for this. You can get json so i want gives data and decode it but i have a error.

root@archi-sunucu:~/yusuf/www# python3 reddit.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "reddit.py", line 24, in <module>
    json = json.loads(resp.text())
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
root@archi-sunucu:~/yusuf/www# python3 reddit.py

my code:

url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/" + subreddit + "/" + feed + ".json?sort=" + feed + "&limit=6"

resp = requests.get(url, verify=False)
json = json.loads(resp.text())

print(json["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["id"])

thanks for helps...

If it is not callable, don't call it: json.loads(resp.text) — Stephen Rauch
– Stephen Rauch ♦, Commented Nov 3, 2019 at 15:28

J_H · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-06 21:53:19Z

1

You complained that this expression raises an error:

json.loads(resp.text())

Well, let's break that down into something simpler, so the line number tells us exactly what part of your code is failing.

temp = resp.text()
json.loads(temp)

Now we see that the 2nd line doesn't even execute, it fails in the 1st line attempting to compute something to assign to the temporary variable.

Examine resp and its attribute with tools like help(resp), dir(resp), type(resp.text), repr(resp.text). You will soon learn the .text attribute is a str. That is not a callable function, so python raises an error. Use the value directly, without a call:

json = json.loads(resp.text)

edited Nov 6, 2019 at 21:53

answered Nov 3, 2019 at 15:45

J_H

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