Can someone explain why some methods, statements, special characters begin with 0 while other with 1?

Question

Im just starting off and I noticed some special characters "list, index, len" begin with 0 while others start off with 1? What makes the 1 so different?

Answer 1

You're question could refer to a number of things, but I will tell you two major tips regarding this.

1. When dealing with lists and dictionaries (and other arrays), 0 refers to the first item in the array, it is not 1. So grabbing the first item in a list would look something like this... myList[0]

2. If you wanted something like a random number between 1 and 50, you would use the 1 like so... range(1, 50)

I hope this helps a little. :)