I get a IndexError: list index out of range Error

I´m having some troubles on my code, that implements a function that verifies the lenght of a string and return that string with or without spaces.

If String b >= 15 return b

If strinf < 15 return “number os spaces until len(b)2 + string b

But I get a IndexError: list index out of range Error. I cannot figure out where or why.

Traceback:

============= RESTART: C:UserspboDesktopTrab_04.py =============

ascii_letters = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:UserspboDesktopTrab_04.py”, line 30, in o2.append(a(o1[e]))

IndexError: list index out of range

============= ============= ============= ============= =============

Thanks a lot for any possible help.

  from random import seed
  from random import randint
  from random import choice
  from string import ascii_letters

  seed(930)

  def a(b):

    if(len(b)<15) :
        s = "";
        l = len(b)
        while(len(s) + len(b) < 15) :
            s += " "
        s += b
        return s
    else: 
        return b


 print("ascii_letters = " + ascii_letters)
 o1 = []
 for e in range(9622):
         k = randint(1, 25)
         s = ""
 for l in range(k):
         s = s + choice(ascii_letters)
 o1.append(s)
 o2 = []
 for e in range(9622):
         o2.append(a(o1[e]))
 print("000000000111111111122222222223333333333")
 print("123456789012345678901234567890123456789")
 for e in range(9):
         print(o1[e] + "|")
 print("000000000111111111122222222223333333333")
 print("123456789012345678901234567890123456789")
 for e in range(9):
         print(o2[e] + "|")


 x1 = ""
 x2 = "a"
 x3 = "abc"
 x4 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
 print("000000000111111111122222222223333333333")
 print("123456789012345678901234567890123456789")
 print(x1 + "|")
 print(x2 + "|")
 print(x3 + "|")
 print(x4 + "|")
 print("000000000111111111122222222223333333333")
 print("123456789012345678901234567890123456789")
 print(a(x1) + "|")
 print(a(x2) + "|")
 print(a(x3) + "|")
 print(a(x4) + "|")

Answer

It looks like your indentation is incorrect (see also What is Python Whitespace and how does it work?).

If you change the following:

o1 = []
for e in range(9622):
    k = randint(1, 25)
    s = ""
for l in range(k):
    s = s + choice(ascii_letters)
o1.append(s)

to:

o1 = []
for e in range(9622):
    k = randint(1, 25)
    s = ""
    for l in range(k):
        s = s + choice(ascii_letters)
        o1.append(s)

Then, your code appears to work.