[kehara15]

My code is below. It works but then python tells me it is going out of range.

def fun3():
    count = 0
    myList = list (range(5))
    while count < len(mylist)+1:
        count = count+1
        print (myList[count])

[NathanMullenax]

Get rid of the '+1'. If there are N elements, they will be numbered 0..N-1, which is what the loop will generate without the +1. Hope this helps.

To clarify, I mean the '+1' in the condition of the while loop, not the one incrementing 'count'. Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet .

[jon.kiparsky]

def fun3():
    myList = list (range(5))  # iterate over items 0 through 4? okay...
    for i in myList:
       print i

Or else:

def fun4():
    for i in range(5):
       print i

This post has been edited by jon.kiparsky: 26 September 2012 - 11:10 AM

[kehara15]

Thank you very much for your suggestion but are you talking about the +1 from count or on the while loop.

Thanks

[kehara15]

It still gives me an error that it is out of range and now its only printing 1-4 and not 0-4

[kehara15]

Are you there?

[NathanMullenax]

kehara15, on 26 September 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

It still gives me an error that it is out of range and now its only printing 1-4 and not 0-4

Increment count after you do the print statement. Otherwise, the first value of count will be '1' instead of '0'.

jon.kiparsky solution 'for..in' etc. is also quite valid, and maybe a bit easier to understand.

[kehara15]

thank you.

let me try that.
i dont think they want a for loop. they want me to keep the while loop

It works great now.
Thank you

[atraub]

Please don't name posts "Error in code". You're at a programming support website, we know your code has errors in it. 75% of the posts could be labeled as "My Python Program has an error" but if we did that, what would be the point in giving them a title at all? How about instead we call this post "index out of range error".

EDIT:
Couldn't you achieve the same with?

def fun3():
    count = 0
    size = 5
    while count < size:
        count = count+1
        print (count)

This prints out 0 - 5 using a while loop but without creating lists and indexing and whatnot

This post has been edited by atraub: 26 September 2012 - 10:35 PM