On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:42:04 GMT, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:27:54 +0100, "Gabriel F. Alcober" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi! There goes a newbie trouble: >> >>for i in range(0, len(subject)): >> if subject[i] in preps: >> psubject.append(noun_syn_parser(subject[0:i])) >> subject[0:i] = [] >> >>Since the last line eliminates some elements of the list, I'm wondering >>if it's somehow possible to change the value of "i" to 0 in order not to >>get an index error. Any other ideas? >>Thanks in advance. >> > >I going to guess that you probably want something more like below. >The routine you have because of the deletions, the index and the >subjects list get way out of sync, which is why you get the index >error on 'subject[i]'. > >Try this which uses no indexes, it should be closer to what you want. >
Correcting a type and an omission: subj2 = [] for subj in subjects: subj2.append(subj) if subj in preps: psubject.append(noun_sys_parser(subj2)) subj2 = [] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list