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> i have list of strings "data" and i am trying to build reverse list data1
> data1 = []
> for i in range(len(data)):
> j = len(data) - i
> data1.append(data[j])
> but i have the following error:
> data1.append(data[j])
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> am i doing it wrong?
> Thanks
Python lists are zero-indexed, meaning a list of five items will have
indexes 0 to 4.
The first time through your loop, i is 0, so
j = len(data) - i
evaluates to
j = len(data)
which would yield 5 for a five-element list, but the last actual element
is in data[4].
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