lookup_player() throws exception "list index out of range" prior to season starting about mlb-statsapi HOT 7 CLOSED

This is most likely because gameType defaults to R (regular season) and season defaults to current calendar year. Include season=2018 to look up players from last season, and/or gameType=S (I think S is Spring Training but I may be remembering incorrectly).

player = statsapi.lookup_player('nola,', season=2018)

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changing the season to 2018 or the gameType to works. That saved me a lot of fiddling around, thank you!

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I’ll try to think of a good way to refactor this function so it works prior to the season starting. Unfortunately there is no endpoint to search players from all time, so it has to specify a season at least. In order to make the function more robust I could probably check the season state and default to previous season if it hasn’t started yet for the current calendar year.

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wasnt sure if i should add a new issue as mine is similar. Mine happens on last_game, but since it only takes one parameter, teamId, i am unable to add gametype.

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wasnt sure if i should add a new issue as mine is similar. Mine happens on last_game, but since it only takes one parameter, teamId, i am unable to add gametype.

@McFlyin619, this is actually functioning as designed. The last_game() method is pulling the team endpoint, and returning data from the previousSchedule node--not calculating the last game on its own. If that node is missing from the result, or contains no game data, an exception will be raised. The MLB-StatsAPI library does not attempt to catch all exceptions due to missing data in the API results; instead that should be handled by the calling application when needed.

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Ahhh, ok. I'll add the previousSchedule to the results. Thank you!

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In v1.5 (publishing in the next day or two) will change the default for lookup_player and lookup_team methods to the latest season based on the season endpoint, rather than the current calendar year. Will not be able to fully test until January, so please submit a new issue if needed.

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