Kriston-Vizi Janos wrote: > Dear Mr. Kern, and Members, > > Thank you very much for the fast answer, my question became > over-simplified. > > My source code is appended below. It uses two text files (L.txt and > GC.txt) as input and merges them. Please find these two files here: > http://kristonvizi.hu/L.txt > http://kristonvizi.hu/GC.txt > > Both L.txt and GC.txt contains 3000 rows. When running, the code stops > with error message: > > 'The debugged program raised the exception IndexError "list index out of > range" > File: /home/kvjanos/file.py, Line: 91' > This error does not indicate that you cannot add further items to a list. It indicates that you are trying to address a list item that hasn't yet been added.
It would have been more helpful to post the *whole* traceback. Furthermore, why do you assume that a 999 is an implementation limit on the basis of this search result: >> What is the maximum listsize in python? In characters >> or items. Thnx. > > 2147483647 items, on most platforms. if you have enough > memory, that is. Does 2147483647 look similar enough to 999 to be confusing? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
