CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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İ Aybala Coşkun
İ Aybala Coşkun

Reputation: 13

Tuple index put of range?

While i was trying to build a tic tac toe game and i wanted to test my function for displaying the board. It gave me 'tuple index out of range' error constantly so i changed it to the simplest form, i simply put a list in the format method:

print(' {7} | {8} | {9} \n ------------ \n {4} | {5} | {6} \n ----------- \n {1} | {2} | {3} '.format(['#','X','O','X','O','X','O','X','O','X']))

the list has 10 elements. And there is no tuple in sight i am a beginner in python and i am currently very struggling with this.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 67

Answers (4)

Håken Lid
Håken Lid

Reputation: 23074

You are passing a single argument to format. Remove the list [ ] to pass ten arguments.

Or you can use * unpacking operator to unpack one iterable sequence into multiple arguments.

print(
  ' {7} | {8} | {9} \n'
  '-----------\n'
  ' {4} | {5} | {6} \n'
  '-----------\n'
  ' {1} | {2} | {3} '.format(*'#XOXOXOXOX')
)

Upvotes: 0

timgeb
timgeb

Reputation: 78770

Currently, you are giving format a single argument - a list with ten elements.

Give format ten arguments by unpacking the list or not using a list at all.

with unpacking:

>>> print(' {7} | {8} | {9} \n ------------ \n {4} | {5} | {6} \n ----------- \n {1} | {2} | {3} '.format(*['#','X','O','X','O','X','O','X','O','X']))
 X | O | X 
 ------------ 
 O | X | O 
 ----------- 
 X | O | X

without unpacking:

>>> print(' {7} | {8} | {9} \n ------------ \n {4} | {5} | {6} \n ----------- \n {1} | {2} | {3} '.format('#','X','O','X','O','X','O','X','O','X'))
 X | O | X 
 ------------ 
 O | X | O 
 ----------- 
 X | O | X

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599876

.format expects individual arguments, not an iterable. You need to unpack the list into separate args using the * operator.

print(' {7} ...'.format(*['#','X','O','X','O','X','O','X','O','X']))
#                       ^ here

Upvotes: 0

Ricky Kim
Ricky Kim

Reputation: 2022

.format works without list.

print(' {7} | {8} | {9} \n ------------ \n {4} | {5} | {6} \n ----------- \n {1} | {2} | {3} '.format(
        '#', 'X', 'O', 'X', 'O', 'X', 'O', 'X', 'O', 'X'))

Upvotes: 0

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