Parsing data JSON and Python

Question

import requests
url = "http://api.geonames.org/citiesJSON?north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2&lang=de&username=demo"
request = requests.get(url)
fetch_data = request.json()
print (request.content)
for item in fetch_data:
 print(item)

I am trying to fetch items within JSON Request geonames -> lng. If I make use of item['lng']

Then getting error

TypeError: string indices must be integers

EXAMPLE of JSON Request

{ 
 "geonames":[ 
 { 
 "lng":-99.12766456604,
 "geonameId":3530597,
 "countrycode":"MX",
 "name":"Mexiko-Stadt",
 "fclName":"city, village,...",
 "toponymName":"Mexico City",
 "fcodeName":"capital of a political entity",
 "wikipedia":"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City",
 "lat":19.428472427036,
 "fcl":"P",
 "population":12294193,
 "fcode":"PPLC"
 }
 ]
}

• jonrsharpe: You're iterating over the dictionary fetch_data, so item is the key (e.g. 'geonames'), which is a string, as the error message tells you.
• Barmar: Use for key, item in fetch_data.enumerate():
• OneCricketeer: @Barmar 'dict' object has no attribute 'enumerate'...?
• OneCricketeer: This code doesn't run... the daily limit of 30000 credits for demo has been exceeded.

Answer 1

Try;

for item in fetch_data['geonames']:
 print(item['lng'])