Lists Debugging#

Section Title: Lists Debugging

  • Each of the following short code contains one or more bugs.     

  • Please identify and correct these bugs.

  • Provide an explanation for your answer.

Question-1#

x = ['A'  'B'  'C' 'D' 'E']

Solution

Elements must be comma-separated.

Question-2#

x = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E']
x(2)

Solution

Indexes must be inside square brackets. x(2) must be x[2].

Question-3#

x = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E']
x[len(x)]

Solution

There is no element of the index len(x) since indexing starts from 0. The largest index is len(x)-1.

Question-4#

mylist = [['NY', 'CA', 'FL'], ('Amy', 'John', 'Ashley', 'Michael')]
mylist[0][3]

Solution

  • mylist[0] is the index of 0 element of mylist, which is [‘NY’, ‘CA’, ‘FL’].

  • mylist[0][3] is attempting to access the index 3 of [‘NY’, ‘CA’, ‘FL’], but that element does not exist.

Question-5#

mylist = [['NY', 'CA', 'FL'], ('Amy', 'John', 'Ashley', 'Michael')]
mylist[1][5]

Solution

  • mylist[1] is the index of 1 element of mylist which is (‘Amy’, ‘John’, ‘Ashley’, ‘Michael’).

  • mylist[1][5] is the index of 5 element of (‘Amy’, ‘John’, ‘Ashley’, ‘Michael’) which does not exist.