IndexError: list index out of range but I have more than enough elements?! Python -

def build_country_dict(lines):     '''return dictionary in form of {country: count}, country        country code , count number of medals won athletes        country'''     d = {}                                  #start empty dictionary     in range(1, len(lines)):          #for ranging 1 length of lines         line_list = lines[i].split(',')     #  split lines[i] list - split on comma         country = line_list[6]              #  country         if country not in d:                #  if country not in dictionary             d[country] = 0                  #    add count of 0         d[country] = d[country] + 1         #  add 1 country count     return d                                #return dictionary 

the error indexerror: list index out of range referring line_list[6] list using has 11 elements in have no idea how correct this.

the original file cvs file, using excel checked through whole thing , every single line should turn list containing 11 elements. file large me print lists.

i did try smaller portion print(line_list[6]) , printed fine.

lines[i] doesn't seem have sufficient data split ','.

try code instead of country = line_list[6]

country = line_list[6] if len(line_list) > 6 else 'unknown' 

alternatively,

try:     country = line_list[6] except indexerror:     continue 

this fits situation more.