TypeError: string indices must be integers

[osterman]

what

• Unable to use 0.8.2, 0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.0 on alpine:3.8 with python3 installed via pip3
• Export was generated by running https://github.com/hfaran/slack-auto-export (successful!)

output

TypeError: string indices must be integers

/export # slack-export-viewer --archive /export/
Archive already extracted. Viewing from /export...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/slack-export-viewer", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/slackviewer/main.py", line 50, in main
    configure_app(app, archive, debug)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/slackviewer/main.py", line 19, in configure_app
    reader = Reader(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/slackviewer/reader.py", line 19, in __init__
    self.__USER_DATA = {u["id"]: User(u) for u in json.load(f)}
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/slackviewer/reader.py", line 19, in <dictcomp>
    self.__USER_DATA = {u["id"]: User(u) for u in json.load(f)}
TypeError: string indices must be integers

Relevant user snippet...

{
    "erik": {
        "id": "UB2EH889X",
        "team_id": "TB2A18NRE",
        "name": "erik",
        "deleted": false,
        "color": "9f69e7",
        "real_name": "Erik Osterman",
        "tz": "America/Los_Angeles",
        "tz_label": "Pacific Standard Time",
        "tz_offset": -28800,

[hfaran]

Would you mind adding a try catch around that statement and checking what the value of u is when it errors out? I'm curious to know why it's a string and not a dict and what it contains.