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string index out of range - jade_kim - Jan-13-2021
Here is the code that is causing IndexError...
s = "python" print(s[8])
Output:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: string index out of rangeCould someone tell me why this is happening?
s = "python" print(s[:8])
Output:pythonRE: string index out of range - deanhystad - Jan-13-2021
Slices are polite?
What would you prefer, for the slice to give you as big a slice as it can, up to what you ask, or to raise an exception. The author picked the former.
RE: string index out of range - jade_kim - Jan-13-2021
(Jan-13-2021, 03:27 AM)deanhystad Wrote: Slices are polite?
What would you prefer, for the slice to give you as big a slice as it can, up to what you ask, or to raise an exception. The author picked the former.
What I want to know is why the error did not occur when the range of the index is greater than the length of the string.
RE: string index out of range - deanhystad - Jan-13-2021
From the python docs
Sequences also support slicing: a[i:j] selects all items with index k such that i <= k < j. When used as an expression, a slice is a sequence of the same type. This implies that the index set is renumbered so that it starts at 0.
So the slice range is a limitation on the index, not a generator of the index. When slicing 'python' the sequences is already limited to indices 0 to 5 because len('python') == 6. The slice will never test for 'python'[8] because 'python'[8] is not part of the 'python' sequence.
RE: string index out of range - jade_kim - Jan-13-2021
I found the following.
From the python intro:
Quote:Degenerate slice indices are handled gracefully: an index that is too large is replaced by the string size, an upper bound smaller than the lower bound returns an empty string.