[Tutor] Re: Erik's questions

[Charlie Clark]

On 2002-04-13 at 18:00:05 [+0200], tutor-request@python.org wrote:
> site_url = []
> 
> but I thought that it was possible to just jump in and start assigning 
> directly to elements in a list.  I can't -- even if I declare site_url as 
> a list, the following doesn't work:
> 
>  >>> site_url=[]
>  >>> site_url[0] = 'hi'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> IndexError: list assignment index out of range
> 
> Why is that?  I thought dynamic typing was more flexible than this... ?
This is not a typing issue.
site_url exists but as it doesn't have any members (it's an empty list), site_url[0] returns an error and cannot be assigned: there is no one in the dinner queue to get the first tray.

Charlie