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In programming and in Python specifically, the first time is always indexed zero. For a list of five items we will access them from index0 to index4. Failure to access the items in a list in this manner will create index error. The index is always an integer as using other number types will create a type error. For nested lists, they are accessed via nested indexing.
Example
Start IDLE.
Navigate to the File menu and click New Window.
Type the following:
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list_mine=[‘b’,’e’,’s’,’t’]
print(list_mine[0]) #the output will be b
print(list_mine[2]) #the output will be s
print(list_mine[3]) #the output will be t
Exercise
Given the following list:
your_collection=[‘t’,’k’,’v’,’w’,’z’,’n’,’f’]
a. Create a program in Python to display the second item in the list
b. Create a program in Python to display the sixth item in the last
c. Create a program in Python to display the last item in the list.
