Rehceb Rotkiv wrote: > I want to check whether, for example, the element myList[-3] exists. So > far I did it like this: > > index = -3 > if len(myList) >= abs(index): > print myList[index]
IMHO it is good way. > Another idea I had was to (ab-?)use the try...except structure: > > index = -3 > try: > print myList[index] > except: > print "Does not exist!" In general case it won't work, because lists accept negative indexes: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, 3rd note. w. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
