Help I tried running this piece of code yet it keeps saying list index out of range. Whenever I go to the last list item it just gives that error. Everything else works fine. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it? '

conversations = ['favouriteFood', 'anyPets', 'idealGift', 'favouriteShow']


def conversationStarter():

        
    if conversations[1] == 'favouriteFood':
        conversations.remove('favouriteFood')
        answer1 = input('What is your favourite food? My favourite food is codewords.')
        answer2 = input('Wow! I love eating '   answer1.lower()   ' too! What is your second favourite?')
        print('Really? I never really learnt to like '   answer2.lower()   ', but I will have a go!')
        conversationStarter()
    elif conversations[1] == 'anyPets':
        conversations.remove('anyPets')
        answer = input('Hey hey hey! Do you have any pets? I do, of course, a pet python! Do you have any pets?')
        if answer == 'yes':
            answer = input('Really! What kind of pet do you own?')
            print('Wow! I would love to have a '   answer.lower()   ' someday!')
            conversationStarter()
        if answer == 'no':
            print('Oh. OK! However, I highly recommend a pet, they make you happier!')
            conversationStarter()
    elif conversations[1] == 'idealGift':
        conversations.remove('idealGift')
        answer = input('What is your most ideal gift for the New Year?')
        print('WHAT? You think of a '   answer.lower()   ' as an ideal gift? I would rather like a Python code.')
        conversationStarter()
    elif conversations[1] == 'favouriteShow':
        conversations.remove('favouriteShow')
        answer = input('What is your favourite movie or TV film?')
        print('Wait what? I never heard of '   answer   '. I should watch it! I love watching Python tutorials though.')
        conversationStarter()

def greetingMenu():
    print('Welcome to the NewYearPyChat.home file. Do you want a conversation?')
    answer = input("Please answer 'yes' or 'no'.")
    if answer == 'yes':
        print('Amazing! Let us start chatting then!')
        conversationStarter()
    elif answer == 'no':
        print('Oh. Try again next time.')
        greetingMenu()
    else:
        print('What are you saying?')
        greetingMenu()


        
    

greetingMenu()
print('And by the way, my name is PyChat if you have not guessed already.')

I tried looking at the piece of code and fixing bits and deleting nearly all of it but it still doesn't work.

CodePudding user response：

You are referencing the second element of the array in each of your if-elif checks. Change each instance of conversations[1] to conversations[0] and you should see the results you're looking for.

CodePudding user response：

As @Barmar said, you are removing elements in a list and it throws a error when the list is empty. instead you can use for loop

conversations = ['favouriteFood', 'anyPets', 'idealGift', 'favouriteShow']


def conversationStarter():
    for i in conversations:
        if i == 'favouriteFood':
            conversations.remove('favouriteFood')
            answer1 = input('What is your favourite food? My favourite food is codewords.')
            answer2 = input('Wow! I love eating '   answer1.lower()   ' too! What is your second favourite?')
            print('Really? I never really learnt to like '   answer2.lower()   ', but I will have a go!')
            conversationStarter()
        elif i == 'anyPets':
            conversations.remove('anyPets')
            answer = input('Hey hey hey! Do you have any pets? I do, of course, a pet python! Do you have any pets?')
            if answer == 'yes':
                answer = input('Really! What kind of pet do you own?')
                print('Wow! I would love to have a '   answer.lower()   ' someday!')
                conversationStarter()
            if answer == 'no':
                print('Oh. OK! However, I highly recommend a pet, they make you happier!')
                conversationStarter()
        elif i == 'idealGift':
            conversations.remove('idealGift')
            answer = input('What is your most ideal gift for the New Year?')
            print('WHAT? You think of a '   answer.lower()   ' as an ideal gift? I would rather like a Python code.')
            conversationStarter()
        elif i == 'favouriteShow':
            conversations.remove('favouriteShow')
            answer = input('What is your favourite movie or TV film?')
            print(
                'Wait what? I never heard of '   answer   '. I should watch it! I love watching Python tutorials though.')
            conversationStarter()


def greetingMenu():
    print('Welcome to the NewYearPyChat.home file. Do you want a conversation?')
    answer = input("Please answer 'yes' or 'no'.")
    if answer == 'yes':
        print('Amazing! Let us start chatting then!')
        conversationStarter()
    elif answer == 'no':
        print('Oh. Try again next time.')
        greetingMenu()
    else:
        print('What are you saying?')
        greetingMenu()


greetingMenu()
print('And by the way, my name is PyChat if you have not guessed already.')