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Kate Petry
Courses Plus Student 9,432 PointsI'm getting an error after I enter my number that indicates string index is out of range
I have reviewed my code and it looks like what Kenneth has. When I run the code it asked for my word and my number. After I enter the number I get an error that says string index is out of range. I am having trouble understanding why. Here is the code I have.
user_string = input("What's your word? ")
user_num = input("What's your number? ")
try:
our_num = int(user_num)
except:
our_num = float(user_num)
if not '.' in user_num:
print(user_string[our_num])
else:
ratio = round(len(user_string)*our_num)
print(user_string[ratio])
3 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWhat string and number are you entering?
Kate Petry
Courses Plus Student 9,432 PointsI tried my name as the string, kate, and for the number I tried 44
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher"kate" doesn't have 44 characters in it, though, so doing "kate"[44] will give the error that you described (index is out of range). Try "kate" and 0, 1, 2, or 3.
Kate Petry
Courses Plus Student 9,432 PointsThank you. I misunderstood the concept of the video. Rewatching again.