Fuzzydave wrote: > Okay, I have been handed a python project and working through it I have > had to add a report. I am returning 10 variables the results of an SQL > Query and as usual the number of results vary from 1 result to 10 results > so I implemented a check to see if the array item was empty or not. The > code is below based upon the code already in the python project i was > handed.
In Python list items do not magically spring into existence if you ask for them. Therefore items[index] raises an IndexError if index is >= len(items). A possible resolution is to check the length of historyRep first: if len(historyRep) > 8 and historyRep[8] is not None: history8 = cmi.format_history(historyRep[8]) else: history8 = "" Note that names like history8 are a strong indication that you should use a list rather than individual variables, e. g: history = [] for item in historyRep: if item is None: s = "" else: s = cmi.format_history(item) history.append(s) or maybe even history = [cmi.format_history(item) for item in historyRep] if historyRep doesn't contain any None values. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list