Why does this iterative list-growing code give IndexError: list assignment index out of range?

Question

Please consider the following code:

i = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]
j = []
k = 0

for l in i:
    j[k] = l
    k += 1

print j

The output (Python 2

Answer 1

I think the Python method insert is what you're looking for:

Inserts element x at position i. list.insert(i,x)

array = [1,2,3,4,5]

array.insert(1,20)

print(array)

# prints [1,2,20,3,4,5]