I converted a string into a list when I used another variable to access a list I am getting a type e-CodePudding

print("<<== program to select and display words of an user input string ==>>")
s=str(input("enter a string:   "))
split1=s.split()
len1=len(split1)
header1="----------------------------------------------"
heading="printing words and ther indexes"
print(header1)
print(heading.center(45))
print(header1)
for x in range(0,len1):
     print("        ",x,"---->",split1[x])
print(header1)
print('')
print('')
g=input('enter the index of the word to display:  ')
print(split1[g])

I am getting:

line 16, in <module>
    print(split1[g])
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

CodePudding user response：

input() returns string by default. You have to use int() to convert it to an integer because index can't be a string. So, it needs to be like this:

g = int(input('enter the index of the word to display:  '))
print(split1[g])

Edit: I got it what you're trying to do using variable g For that, you have to use index() like this

g = input('enter the index of the word to display:  ')
print(split1.index(g))