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python-3.x
Bob
Bob

Reputation: 45

Indexing the list in python

record=['MAT', '90', '62', 'ENG', '92','88']

course='MAT'

suppose i want to get the marks for MAT or ENG what do i do? I just know how to find the index of the course which is new[4:10].index(course). Idk how to get the marks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (2)

elethan
elethan

Reputation: 17003

Try this:

i = record.index('MAT')
grades = record[i+1:i+3]

In this case i is the index/position of the 'MAT' or whichever course, and grades are the items in a slice comprising the two slots after the course name.

You could also put it in a function:

def get_grades(course):
    i = record.index(course)
    return record[i+1:i+3]

Then you can just pass in the course name and get back the grades.

>>> get_grades('ENG')
['92', '88']
>>> get_grades('MAT')
['90', '62']
>>>

Edit

If you want to get a string of the two grades together instead of a list with the individual values you can modify the function as follows:

def get_grades(course):
    i = record.index(course)
    return ' '.join("'{}'".format(g) for g in record[i+1:i+3])

Upvotes: 1

Durante
Durante

Reputation: 305

You can use index function ( see this https://stackoverflow.com/a/176921/) and later get next indexes, but I think you should use a dictionary.

Upvotes: 0

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