an item inside list try entering animals[ ]animals[ ]animals[ ]and animals[ into the interactive shell to see how they evaluateanimals ['aardvark''anteater''antelope''albert'animals[ 'aardvarkanimals[ 'anteateranimals[ 'antelopeanimals[ 'albertthe number between the square brackets is the index in pythonthe index of the first item in list is the second item is at index the third item is at index and so on because the indexes begin at not we say that python lists are zero-indexed lists are good for storing several values without using variable for each one otherwisethe code would look like thisanimals 'aardvarkanimals 'anteateranimals 'antelopeanimals 'albertthis code would be hard to manage if you have hundreds or thousands of strings but list can easily contain any number of values using the square bracketsyou can treat items in the list just like any other value try entering animals[ animals[ into the interactive shellanimals[ animals[ 'aardvarkantelopethe evaluation looks like thisanimals[ animals[ 'aardvarkanimals[ 'aardvark'antelopev 'aardvarkantelopeindexerror post questions to