IndexError: string index out of range
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 12 04:14:36 EDT 2001
"michael" <mhyoung at valdosta.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.987034096.12363.python-list at python.org...
[snip]
> if (buf[0] == EXCLUDE):
This assumes 0 is in-range as an index: it will not be
if buf is an EMPTY (0-length) string.
> learning purposes. This program works fine until it gets to the last
> line in the testfile and I get this error.
Right, because after the last line an empty string is returned.
> Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've looked all over
> the net and in several books for a solution.
For example, just change this previously-quoted test to
if buf.startswith(EXCLUDE):
THIS will work even when buf is the 0-length string.
Alex
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