List index out of range

[Derbylad]

After starting my coursework I've come across the following error code... "List index out of range". I was expecting this to be something very simple that I've done wrong and still imagine it will be seeing as I've written code similar to this before.

The code is designed to turn a list of players/members into separate strings. The code is shown below...

class Member(object):
	'''a member'''

fin = open ("players.txt","r")

l= []
for line in fin:
	line=line.strip()
	x = line.split(";")
	memb = Member()
	memb.id= x[0]
	memb.forename= x[1]
	memb.surname= x[2]
	memb.email= x[3]
	memb.phone= x[4]
	memb.divc= x[5]
	memb.pointc= x[6]
	memb.divp= x[7]
	memb.pointp= x[8]
	l.append(memb)
fin. close ()

print l

A sample of the players.txt file is...

A;Ed;Young;e.yo ung@lboro.ac.uk ;223376;1;0;1;0
B;Gordon;McTagg art-Cowan;g.b.mctag gart@lboro.ac.u k;226276;1;0;1; 0
C;Tom;Kane;t.g. kane@lboro.ac.u k;726653;1;0;1; 0
D;Chris;Holmes; c.r.holmes@lbor o.ac.uk;225378; 1;0;1;0
E;David;Mulvane y;d.k.mulvaney@ lboro.ac.uk;227 142;1;0;1;0
F;James;Buller; j.buller@lboro. ac.uk;223543;1; 0;1;0
A;Andrew;Wright ;a.wright@lboro .ac.uk;218432;2 ;0;2;0

If someone's able to shed a bit of light on why I'm getting this error code I'll be thankful as I'm not back at university until Monday.

[bvdet]

It could be something as simple as an extra line in the data file. An extra line is created when the last full line ends with "\n".

class Member(object):
	'''a member'''

fin = open ("players.txt","r")

attrs = ["id", "forename", "surname", "email", "phone", "pointc", "divp", "pointp"]

l= []
for line in s.split("\n"):
    line=line.strip()
    if line:
        memb = Member()
        for i, attr in enumerate(attrs):
            setattr(memb, attr, line[i])
        l.append(memb)
fin. close ()

print l

[woooee]

You will have to post the error message which lists the line that contains the error. My guess is that you have a record with less than 9 items.

[Derbylad]

Thanks for the quick responses guys, Turned out there was an extra new line at the end of the data code.
Much appreciated.

[woooee]

Whenever you are doing anything similar, always check for the proper length and print if it's not correct. You will eliminate a lot of unnecessary debugging.

x = line.split(";")
if len(x) > 8:
    ## process normally
else:
    print("Bogus line length =", x)