I'm new at programing and I'm trying to check a piece of code that keeps giving me this error:
t[i] = t[i - 1] + dt
IndexError: list index out of range
The code is the following:
dt = 0.001t = [0]
for i in range(1, 499):t[i] = t[i - 1] + dt
I want to fix the first value of t as 0, and then define its behavior in a range (btw I'm not sure about how to fix a value neither) but I keep getting the same error. Please help. Thanks
I think that you are trying to append values to the list. If yes, then this is how you do it:
dt = 0.001t = [0]
for i in range(1, 499):t.append(t[i - 1] + dt)
Output:
>>> t
[0, 0.001, 0.002, 0.003, 0.004, 0.005, 0.006, 0.007, 0.008, 0.009000000000000001, 0.010000000000000002, 0.011000000000000003, 0.012000000000000004, 0.013000000000000005, 0.014000000000000005, 0.015000000000000006, 0.016000000000000007, 0.017000000000000008, 0.01800000000000001, 0.01900000000000001, 0.02000000000000001, 0.02100000000000001, 0.022000000000000013, 0.023000000000000013, 0.024000000000000014, 0.025000000000000015, 0.026000000000000016, 0.027000000000000017, 0.028000000000000018, 0.02900000000000002, 0.03000000000000002, 0.03100000000000002, 0.03200000000000002, 0.03300000000000002, 0.03400000000000002, 0.035000000000000024, 0.036000000000000025, 0.037000000000000026, 0.03800000000000003, 0.03900000000000003, 0.04000000000000003, 0.04100000000000003, 0.04200000000000003, 0.04300000000000003, 0.04400000000000003, 0.04500000000000003, 0.046000000000000034, 0.047000000000000035, 0.048000000000000036, 0.04900000000000004, 0.05000000000000004, 0.05100000000000004, 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Why didn't the previous approach work?
t is an array of length 1 (it has only 1 element)t[1] (i.e the 2nd element in the list t)t does not have a 2nd element, so it throws an IndexError