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I think there is an error in this exercise. The question asks you to use square brackets ( [ and ] ) to select the 4th employee from the list employees .
Because Pythons uses zero index, the fourth employee should be Ryan. When you write: print(employees[4]) , Ryan is the output. However, the model won’t let you progress unless you assign Pams name to the variable employee_four.
We can see that ‘Pam’ is the fourth name in the list. Index 4 would give us ‘Ryan’, but that is the fifth name. The instructions are clear in that they want the fourth name. That is at index 3.
Oh I see. I have been counting lists with the first element as ZERO in line with the way that list elements are indexed in Python, which I think is why I was confused. I didn’t realise that the questions are framed in a way that ask you to count the first element as the first (and then match it with the correct index, starting from 0) - confusing! This became more clear to me as I progressed through the working with lists modules and realised I was getting answers wrong because I was counting from 0 instead of first, second, third etc to find the right element. It’s starting to make more sense as I get used to it
Because our lists are zero indexed, our fourth element is saved as:
employee_four = employees[3]
As such, because we want to display the fourth element our final result is:
print(employees[3])
Correction: I have the right answer now. I am still, somewhat, confused in terms of how I can get some answers wrong (even with the correct code) but at other times I am right.
is not the correct code. We are asked to print the variable.
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