why this program is giving me error

Question

total_students=6
failed_students=["Ali","ahmed","Abdulmateen"]
failed_students [0]=9
failed_students [1]=5
failed_students [2]=2
if failed_students([0]<[1] and [2]):
print(failed_students[0],"has the least numbers")
elif failed_students[1]<[0] and [2]:
print(failed_students[1],"has the least numbers")
elif failed_students[2]<[0] and [1]:
print(failed_students[2],"has the least numbers")

print("Better luck next time")

Answer 1

[0]<[1] implies nothing ,it should be student[0]<student[1] and student[2]

Answer 2

Your code may run after some improofments, but let me give you some friendly hints to do this job a bit more pythonic. It's not as difficult as it looks like, but it needs some more basic knowledge from python regarding dictionary.
(1) total_students is a var that is created but never used
(2) a list failed_students is created and initialzesd with 3 names
(3) in the next line these names will be replaced by the score
(4) then it compares the values against each others

From my point of view, a dictionary would be a better data structure to do this

# show student with the least number
failed_students = {"Ali":9, "Ahmed":5, "Abdulmateen":2} # create the dict
least = max(failed_students.values()) # initialize var for least score
for name, score in failed_students.items(): # use a for loop to iterate through the dict
if score < least:
tmp_name, least = name, score
print(tmp_name, least)

Answer 3

You Have To Configure And Use Syntax Properly In Which Variable You Want To Perform Indexing.
In Above Program You Made Mistake During Performing Boolean Expression.
This Will Be Like-
if failed_students[0]<failed_students[1] and failed_students[0]<failed_students[2]:

Answer 4

I am a beginner i hope i will learn this structure in future
Thanks for your answer

Answer 5

Thanks