Index error

Question

I’m getting an index error with the following code:
import sys
def rememberer(thing):
    #open file
    #input("What should I remember? ")
    with open("mylist.txt", "a") as file:
        #write file
        file.write(thing + "
")
def show():
    with open("mylist.txt") as file:
        for line in file:
            print(line)
if name == 'main':
    if sys.argv[1].lower() == '--list':
        show()
    else:
        rememberer(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))

Steven Parker · Accepted Answer

Python is particularly hard to read without blockquoting, but the only indexing I see is where you check the invocation line using sys.argv[1].  I'm guessing when you ran the program you didn't add any arguments to the command line.
You should probably test the length of argv before accessing the second item.

Elise Gordillo · Answer

I wrote the program in PyCharm. I didn't realize when I was watching the lesson that this is something that could only be run from the terminal. I've rewritten the program and taken out the sys.argv line. I wish there was more clarification on the videos when something will only work from command line.

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Index error

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