How to avoid “IndexError: list index out of range” error in my Python code

Question

What is the best way to fix the error given in the run? I also somewhat understand that a list cannot change while being iterated over, but it still seems a little abstract.

Answer 1

This is what list.pop is for!

myList = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G"]

and remove the second element with:

myList.pop(2)

which will modify the list to:

['A', 'B', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G']

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As pointed out in the comments, modifying a list that you are iterating over is never a good idea. If something more complicated but similar to this had to be done, you would make a copy of the list first with myList[:] and then iterate through changing the copy. But for this scenario, list.pop is the definitely the right option.