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Help with list Syntax.
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I have been working with lists for a while now and I thought it was easy but right now I cannot get it to cooperate.

I have a dictionary full of word patterns as the key and then the list of words as the entry for each key.
I am trying to create a new list if just the entries from one key but it is loading the whole thing like a sting into location 0 instead of 1 word per location in the list. I cannot figure out why.

First I load in my dictionary and functions etc,crate the key I want etc. Everything seems fine so far.

The name of the Dictionary is allPatterns and the key is '0.1.0.2.3.4.5.6.7'.
When I test it, I seem to get the right result. Shown below.
wordPatterns.allPatterns['0.1.0.2.3.4.5.6.7']
['AMAZINGLY', 'ANAEROBIC', 'ANALOGIES', 'ANALOGUES', 'ANALYZERS', 'ANAPHORIC', 'ANARCHISM', 'ANARCHIST', 'ARACHNIDS', 'BOBWHITES', 'COCKTAILS', 'DEDUCTING', 'DEDUCTION', 'ELECTIONS', 'ELECTRIFY', 'ELECTRONS', 'ELEPHANTS', 'ELEVATION', 'ELEVATORS', 'ERECTIONS', 'EXECUTING', 'EXECUTION', 'EXECUTORS', 'EXEMPLARY', 'EXEMPLIFY', 'EXEMPTING', 'EXEMPTION', 'EXERTIONS', 'GIGABYTES', 'GIGAHERTZ', 'MEMORIALS', 'MOMENTARY', 'MUMBLINGS', 'PAPERINGS', 'POPULATED', 'POPULATES', 'REROUTING', 'SISYPHEAN', 'SUSTAINED', 'TUTORIALS']
This is what I would expect.

The problem is when I try to make a list out of this data. Let's call it listA.

listA = [wordPatterns.allPatterns['0.1.0.2.3.4.5.6.7']]
>>> listA[0]
['AMAZINGLY', 'ANAEROBIC', 'ANALOGIES', 'ANALOGUES', 'ANALYZERS', 'ANAPHORIC', 'ANARCHISM', 'ANARCHIST', 'ARACHNIDS', 'BOBWHITES', 'COCKTAILS', 'DEDUCTING', 'DEDUCTION', 'ELECTIONS', 'ELECTRIFY', 'ELECTRONS', 'ELEPHANTS', 'ELEVATION', 'ELEVATORS', 'ERECTIONS', 'EXECUTING', 'EXECUTION', 'EXECUTORS', 'EXEMPLARY', 'EXEMPLIFY', 'EXEMPTING', 'EXEMPTION', 'EXERTIONS', 'GIGABYTES', 'GIGAHERTZ', 'MEMORIALS', 'MOMENTARY', 'MUMBLINGS', 'PAPERINGS', 'POPULATED', 'POPULATES', 'REROUTING', 'SISYPHEAN', 'SUSTAINED', 'TUTORIALS']
>>> listA[1]
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in <module> listA[1] IndexError: list index out of range
What Gives? Please help.
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Help with list Syntax. - by jarrod0987 - Jan-13-2018, 12:59 PM
RE: Help with list Syntax. - by j.crater - Jan-13-2018, 01:11 PM
RE: Help with list Syntax. - by jarrod0987 - Jan-13-2018, 01:11 PM

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