How to print elements of particular index in list in python?

Question

Suppose I have list as lists=[1,2,3,3,4,43] now i want to access 5 index element from the above list how can i do that? I Tried sorting the list

lists.sort()
z=len(lists)
lists.index(z-1)

on trying to get 5th item ie 4 it says value not in list. how can I do that?

Answer 1

lists.index(z-1)

index() is an inbuilt function in Python, which searches for given element from start of the list and returns the lowest index where the element appears.

In your case z=6 and z-1=5, as 5 is not present in the list it returns

ValueError: 5 is not in list

To get value use following

lists[z-1]

it will return the value at the given index ie. value at z-1 index

Answer 2

To get the 5th index you should do: 'list[4]'

What you tried 'list.index(6-1)' will return the index of the first value that equals 5