print instance 0 id TypeError list object is not callable

Question

import boto3
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
instance = ec2.create_instance(
    ImageId = 'ami-009d6802948d06e52',
    MinCount = 1,
    MaxCount = 1,
    InstanceType = 't2.micro')
print (instance[0].id)

Comments

Do you have a default VPC?

Answer 1

Hey @Suraj, For me its working fine. You need to verify that have you verified aws credentials or not?

This is the code I used for creating an Instance.

The instance Id was displayed as an output for ec2.create_instance

Here is the instance created.

Give me some more details on your error so that I can suggest you the solution.

Comments

Thank you for the reply Priyaj.

This is what I receive when I tried to print the Instance Id. As I have few more instances, I tried it as print(instance(4).id) as well. This being the 5th yet the same response. Can you help further?

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Hey @Suraj you just print the instance and the index. You don't use .id.

See this:-

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The instance variable here is of type list. hence you have to use

print (instance[0].id)

To get the id of the required index instance.

Hope it helps.

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Hey @Suraj,

The code that you are using is correct but when you are implementing it you are changing 

print (instance[0].id) 

to 

print (instance(0).id) 

This will work fine.

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The code you have mentioned in the question and the code used in the screenshot is different. In the screenshot, you have used 

print (instance(0).id)

To address the index of a list, you have to use square brackets. Try this:

print (instance[0].id)

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Thank you that helped me :)

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Hello @Suraj, glad you found the solution.