Split Strings inside a List

Question

I'm trying to split strings inside a list and store it in another list. My code is giving me a "List index out of range" error.

line_split = []

for i in range(len(phrase)):
    line_split[i] = phrase[i].split()
    gap = length % len(phrase[i])

phrase = ['Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,', 'consectetur adipiscing elit,', 'sed do eiusmod tempor', 'incididunt ut labore et', 'dolore magna aliqua.']

Answer 1

That's because line_split s an empty list, so even index 0 is out-of-range...
Use append instead of indexing as so -

line_split.append(phrase[i].split())

Also, this can be done with a simple list-comprehension, which is readable and compact:

phrase = ['Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,', 'consectetur adipiscing elit,', 'sed do eiusmod tempor', 'incididunt ut labore et', 'dolore magna aliqua.']
line_split = [p.split() for p in phrase]

Last but not least - I don't know what " gap " is supposed to be, but length is undefined...

Answer 2

Aswell as appending you can initialize the list with empty values:

line_split = [""] * len(phrase)