[Tutor] Final review

[Alan Gauld]

On 06/05/14 04:43, Scott Dunning wrote:
> I have another question.  I don’t understand why below would give an error?
>
>>>> greeting = 'Hello World'
>>>> greeting [len(greeting)]


Because list indexing starts at zero but len() returns the actual 
length. So the last element of a list is

mylist[len(mylist)-1]

or, more simply:

mylist[-1]

Aside:
len() does work with range() and slicing so you can write

myList[:len(mylist)]

to get a copy of your list...

HTH
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Alan G
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