I am trying to return the second element of a list, however when i try it, there is no output. I am-CodePudding

x = ["Artificial Intelligence","Digital Graphic Design","PE","A"]

def select_second_element(x):
  if len(x)<2:
    return x[1]
  else:
    return None

CodePudding user response：

Seeing your comments you probably mean "How do I get the second character from each string?" (a string is just a list of character elements).

Changing to >= as j1-lee suggested calling that method in a loop for each element will give you that result.

def select_second_element(lst):
    return lst[1] if len(lst) >= 2 else None

for element in x:
    print(select_second_element(element))

Returns:

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None

CodePudding user response：

Just try that for any function, note that you should consider indexing

def select_second_element(x):
  try:
    return x[1]
  except IndexError:
    print('There is no second element')