[Tutor] Understanding error in recursive function

[Alan Gauld]

On 10/04/16 19:36, Peter Otten wrote:
> Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
>> or a slightly sneaky but faster version:
>>
>> def howMany(aList):
>>     return aList.index(aList[-1]) + 1
> 
> Sorry, but this isn't "slightly sneaky", this is outright wrong.
> I fails for both empty lists and lists with duplicate entries.

Oops, quite right. Sorry.

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