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[Rob Cliffe]

On 29/11/2016 04:58, victor rajewski wrote:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>  File "foo.py", line 2, in <module>
>
>    l[10]=14
>
> IndexError: list assignment index out of range
>
>
> A better message might be:
>
> You tried to use l[10] when l is only 4 elements long. You can add 
> items to l using l.append(value), or check your index value to make 
> sure that's really the position you wanted to access.
>
>
>
It would make sense to me to upgrade this particular error message to
IndexError: list assignment index 10 out of range 0 to 3 if it can be 
done without too much difficulty or overhead.  (An empty list, and 
perhaps one with only 1 element, would be special cases.)  Come to think 
of it, is the word "assignment" needed?
Rob Cliffe
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