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I am a beginner programmer and im not sure what this means...

Index Error: list index out of range

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  • It sounds like you are trying to access an element outside the range of the list. What code is causing this error? Commented Apr 14, 2013 at 23:53
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    Paste your code so we can help solve your problem Commented Apr 14, 2013 at 23:56

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Generally it means that you are providing an index for which a list element does not exist.

E.g, if your list was [1, 3, 5, 7], and you asked for the element at index 10, you would be well out of bounds and receive an error, as only elements 0 through 3 exist.

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