Python Indexerror: list assignment index out of range Example

If ‘fruits’ is a list, fruits=[‘Apple’,’ Banana’,’ Guava’]and you try to modify fruits[5] then you will get an index error since the length of fruits list=3 which is less than index asked to modify for which is 5.

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/example.py", line 3, in <module>
   fruits[5]='Mango'
IndexError: list assignment index out of range

So, as you can see in the above example, we get an error when we try to modify an index that is not present in the list of fruits.

In python, lists are mutable as the elements of a list can be modified. But if you try to modify a value whose index is greater than or equal to the length of the list then you will encounter an Indexerror: list assignment index out of range.