Question

I am asking a user to enter a number, in which I want to print the item held at that index point in the list..

This is the code i currently have:

List = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"]

print "The list has the following", len(List), "list:", List

new_item = raw_input("Which item would you like to add? ")
List.append(new_item)
print "The list has the following", len(List), "items:", List

Number = raw_input ("Please select a number: ")

Answer 1

Try converting Number to an integer first:

i = int(Number)                                                                 
print "You selected:", List[i]

Incidentally, it’s good Python style to make variables lower case, and keep identifiers that begin with a capital letter for classes. So, instead of List you could use my_list and instead of Number just use number. (You shouldn’t use list as a variable name since that will hide the built-in list type.)