TypeError: string indices must be integers in pdfreader

Question

When running this code

import PyPDF2 as pdf

bikeins = open('pdffileproj12.pdf','rb')
read_bikeins = pdf.PdfFileReader(bikeins)

I get this error

read_bikeins = pdf.PdfFileReader(bikeins) Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in read_bikeins = pdf.PdfFileReader(bikeins)

File "C:\Users\Naveen Raj\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1084, in init self.read(stream)

File "C:\Users\Naveen Raj\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1805, in read assert xrefstream["/Type"] == "/XRef"

TypeError: string indices must be integers

Find the PDF here

@Bentaye how to share my Pdf file here. can i send u the pdf file personally — Naveen Raj B
@NaveenRajB maybe give a dropbox or goggle drive link to the file. Not sure if it is possible to upload a file here. — Bentaye
@Bentaye drive.google.com/file/d/1xRWmBH97B23QmWBUcpRbff14CZIOI7Vh/… — Naveen Raj B

Bentaye Bentaye · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-14T08:33:52

Disclaimer: This is not an answer, I post it as an answer because the original poster asked for it and because it won't fit in a comment, length wise and format wise.

Here is the code I run. And I can't reproduce the error.

I run on MacOs
I am using the provided pdf file.
The pdf file is in the same folder as the program.
Tried both Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.3

The file is in the same folder at the test.py file.

import PyPDF2 as pdf

bikeins = open('pdffileproj12.pdf','rb')
read_bikeins = pdf.PdfFileReader(bikeins)

print(str(read_bikeins))

Here is the output when I run it, with Python 2.7.13

$ python --version
Python 2.7.13
$ python test.py 
<PyPDF2.pdf.PdfFileReader object at 0x101618810>

and with Python 3.6.3

$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.3
$ python3 test.py 
<PyPDF2.pdf.PdfFileReader object at 0x110588c88>

I do not get any error. Can you check your version of Python?

TypeError: string indices must be integers in pdfreader

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