Python list index error in an if statement

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I am not sure why I am getting this list index out of bounds error

Basically what is supposed to happen is I am sending my def a list of twitter userIds and then breaking them into chunks of 100 looking them up in twitter, then adding them to a dictionary using the userIds as the key. So lets say 00001 is johnny we look up 00001 get johnny and then make a dictionary with 00001, johnny. However the if statements don't seem to trigger.

Here is the code:

 def getUserName(lookupIds):
     l = len(lookupIds) # length of list to process
     i = 0 #setting up increment for while loop 
     screenNames = {}#output dictionary
     count = 0 #count of total numbers processed
     print lookupIds
     while i < l:
         toGet = []
         if l - count > 100:#blocks off in chunks of 100
             for m  in range (0,100):
                toGet[m] = lookupIds[count]
                count = count + 1
                print toGet
         else:#handles the remainder 
              r = l - count 
              print screenNames
              for k  in range (0,r):#takes the remainder of the numbers 
                  toGet[k] = lookupIds[count]
                  count = count + 1
              i = l   # kills loop

          screenNames.update(zip(toGet, api.lookup_users(user_ids=toGet)))
          #creates a dictionary screenNames{user_Ids, screen_Names}

     #This logic structure breaks up the list of numbers in chunks of 100 or their
     #Remainder and addes them into a dictionary with their userID number as the 
     #index value Count is for monitoring how far the loop has been progressing.    
     print len(screenNames) + 'screen names correlated'
     return screenNames

The error is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "twitterBot2.py", line 78, in <module>
    toPrint = getUserName(followingids)#Testing Only
  File "twitterBot2.py", line 42, in getUserName
    toGet[k] = lookupIds[count]
IndexError: list assignment index out of range

try toGet.append(value)

Joran Beasley
– Joran Beasley

2014-06-17 01:39:02 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 1:39 — Joran Beasley
– Joran Beasley, Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 1:39

CDahn · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17 01:40:33Z

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toGet is initialized to the empty list, and you're attempting to assign [0] a value. This is illegal. Use append instead:

toGet.append(lookupIds[count])

answered Jun 17, 2014 at 1:40

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RohitJ · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17 01:48:04Z

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This is likely because you're attempting to lookup index zero when it doesn't exist. Example:

>>> x=[]
>>> x[0] = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list assignment index out of range

answered Jun 17, 2014 at 1:48

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Yani · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17 02:37:08Z

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def getUserName(lookUpIds):
    blockSize = 100
    screenNames = {}
    indexes = xrange(0, len(lookUpIds), blockSize)
    blocks = [lookUpIds[i:(i + blockSize)] for i in indexes]
    for block in blocks:
        users = api.lookup_users(user_ids=block)
        screenNames.update(zip(block, users))

    return screenNames

answered Jun 17, 2014 at 2:37

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