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Sequences and Indexing

Sequences and Indexing. Sequences are powerful because they let you refer to an entire collection , as well as the items in the collection, using a single name . You can still get to the items (aka elements ) in the collection, by indexing : colors = [ 'red' , 'white' , 'blue ' ]

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Sequences and Indexing

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  1. Sequencesand Indexing Sequences are powerful because they let you refer to an entire collection, as well as the items in the collection, using a single name. • You can still get to the items(aka elements)in the collection, by indexing: • colors =['red', 'white', 'blue'] • colors[0]has value 'red' • colors[1]has value 'white' • colors[2]has value 'blue' ] colors [ 1 Indexing starts at zero, not at one The number (or variable) inside the square brackets is called the index.

  2. Avoid this Gotcha – an “off by one” error in referring to the LAST element of a sequence cool_words =['aplomb', 'eviscerate', 'pataflafla', 'tmesis'] last_word= cool_words[3] # Correct! last_word = cool_words[len(cool_words) - 1] # Correct! last_word = cool_words[4] # WRONG!!! last_word = cool_words[len(cool_words)] # WRONG!!! Note! The wrong statements above generate an error message: IndexError: list index out of range Cool words taken from:www.vocabula.com/vrbestwords.asp

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