"john boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > using the following program: > > fruit = "banana" > index = 0 > while index < len (fruit): > letter = fruit[index-1] > print letter > index= index -1
> after spelling "banana" it gives an error message: > refering to line 4: letter = fruit[index-1] > states that it is an IndexError and the string index is out of range > Anybody know how to fix this? add "print index" before the "letter =" line to see what your program is doing, and what index is when you get the error. then read this: http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000 </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
