Fill in the blank issue

Question

Fill in the blanks to create a list, reassign its 2nd element and print the whole list.

nums = [33, 42, 56_
nums[_] = 22
print(____)

Ans:

nums = [33, 42, 56]
nums[1] = 22
print(nums)

So my doubt is why nums[1] is 1?

Answer 1

The question says, "reassign its 2nd element". That's what the second line does. In Python the index is counted from 0, so the second element is nums[1].