print(list[list[4]]) question

Question

What is the output?
list=[1,1,2,3,5,8,13]
print(list[list[4]])
Solution: 8

The notes say index 4 becomes number 5. Which becomes number 8 (our solution). Why? How was I supposed to know to substitute index number 4 (no instructions were given)? Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Thanks Bishu Giri:). I just ran the code in playground and I can see what you mean. The command is "print" and the code itself was saying like "First print nested index number 4 (which is five) now print whatever number is indexed at 5". So print is the command and I was just missreading the code.

Thanks again for your concise explanation👍🏻

Answer 2

Thanks for that, The Trump.

So list here is a command? I thought it was just telling me what type of data it was.

Answer 3

There are few keywords that are internal & python uses it for specific purposes, avoid using the same name as a variable. when you type this keywords it will come as green which means it is a python keyword.

Here, list is ideally a function that creates object of type list. for figuring out the data type use "type" function