How do I fix an "'int' object is not iterable" error?
I’m working on the count problem, and have come up with the following code:
def count(sequence, item):
found = 0
for i in len(sequence):
if sequence[i] == item:
found = found + 1
return found
but when I submit it I get an “‘int’ object is not iterable” error. I’m not really sure whether that means there’s a problem with the variable found which is an integer, or if sequence isn’t being recognised as a list…or some other possibility I haven’t thought of.
Can anyone explain what that error message means and how I should fix it?
Answer 54f2371095e378e4ea002ede
The error is that here, you need to use i to iterate through a list, but you specified an integer, namely len(sequence), instead of the necessary list …
for i in len(sequence):
To iterate through all integers from 0 up to, but not including len(sequence), you can specify the needed list, as follows …
for i in range(len(sequence)):
1 comments
Aha, thank you! I was thinking of the range initially but didn’t realise I hadn’t actually written it in.
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