Why am I getting index out of range at num.pop(3)?

Question

num = ['1' '2','3','4','5','6']
num_pop1 = num.pop(0)
num_pop2 = num.pop(1)
num_pop3 = num.pop(2)
num_pop4 = num.pop(3)
num_pop5 = num.pop(4)

Answer 1

You could see the answer when you use print between. After that the list is shorter, and shorter …

num = ['1' '2','3','4','5','6']
print(num)
num_pop1 = num.pop(0)
print(num)
num_pop2 = num.pop(1)
print(num)
num_pop3 = num.pop(2)
print(num)
num_pop4 = num.pop(3)
num_pop5 = num.pop(4)

Output:
['12', '3', '4', '5', '6']
after pop[0] ['3', '4', '5', '6']
after pop[1] ['3', '5', '6']
after pop[2] ['3', '5']