Hey i keep getting a string index out of range error... i have tried EVERYTHING could you please help out, Thanks a hell of a lot appreciated.
x = 0
y = ""
z = 0
user_input = raw_input("Message? ")
while z < len(user_input):
y = y + " " + user_input[x]
x = x +3
z += 1
if x > len(user_input):
print y
break
You only break when if x > len(user_input):. But what if x % 3 == 0?
That means the length of your input string is dividable by three. You increment x by three each time and when the length of your input string is a multiple of three you'll get an error.
To fix it, you should use if x >= len(user_input): instead.
>= instead of >.if user_input is a multiple of 3, then x will eventually equal the length of user_input (and the index will be one greater than actually exists).
user_input = "abc"
If someone answers your user_input with that, then you'll have a length of 3, but the index will only go up to 2 (user_input[0] == "a", user_input[1] == "b", user_input[2] == "c", user_input[3] throws an IndexError).
Instead, change your if statement to look like this:
while x >= len(user_input):
Maybe your if condition should read x >= len(user_input)? (user_input[x] with x being len(user_input) is probably giving you trouble)
