[Tutor] Semantic Error: Trying to access elements of list and append to empty list with for loop

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/06/16 18:05, Olaoluwa Thomas wrote:

> lst = list()
> for line in fhand:
>     words = line.split()

words is now a list of words

 a test that a portion of my code was working)
>     lst.append(words)

So you append that list to lst and get a list of lists.
Try using + instead:

lst += words

> would give me the output in the attached screenshot
> [image: Inline image 2]

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