This is my code for creating a url list and Im getting an index out of range error? Please help!

#! /usr/bin/env python

import re

TOTAL_PAGES = 619
idFile = open("listOfURLs2", "r")
outFile = open("output", "w")
idList = []
urlList = []
temp = ""
tempStr = ""
currentList = []
index = 1


for line in idFile:
        idList.append(line)

for i in range(TOTAL_PAGES): #iterates through all input files
        try:
                f = open('detailedData/exchange_view.php?id=' + str(idList[index][:-1]), 'r')
                fullFile = f.read()
        except IndexError,e:
                print e

        temp = re.search('Publics_mPage=\d*">\d*</a> of.*?(\d*) ', fullFile, re.S)
        if temp is not None:
                i = 1
                while i <= int(temp.group(1)):
                        tempStr = "https://www.example.com/private/exchange_view.php?id=" + \
                                idList[index][:-1] + "&peerParticipantsPublics_mPage=" + str(i)
                        currentList.append(tempStr)
                        i += 1
        else:
                pass



        index += 1


for line in currentList:
 outFile.write(line)
        outFile.write(' ')

Please gives us the total Traceback Error Message.

As posted over the full Traceback tell you where in code you get the error.

Im getting an index out of range error? Please help!

So to make a index out of range error.

>>> l = [1,2,3,4]
>>> l[3]
4
>>> l[4]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range

The print statement explain what happened.

>>> try:
        l[4]
    except IndexError:  
        print "Trying to access an item in a list that isn't there"

Trying to access an item in a list that isn't there
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "createURLList.py", line 21, in <module>
    f = open('detailedData/exchange_view.php?id=' + str(idList[index][:-1]), 'r')
IndexError: list index out of range

This is the error message i get. I tried putting a try block and saw that my code is dying at the file open operation.

Looking at code you are doing some stuff that are not so good.
str(idList[index][:-1] this is not nessessay and don't do it inside open()
Look at this.

""" url.txt
ttp://www.youtube.com/
ttp://www.google.no/
ttp://www.sol.no/
""" 

with open('url.txt') as f:
    idList = [item.strip() for item in f]

print idList
#--> ['ttp://www.youtube.com/', 'ttp://www.google.no/', 'ttp://www.sol.no/']

As you see i get a list list without \n
Some test code you can lok at.

>>> index = 0
>>> for i in range(3):
...     i, idList[index]
...     index +=1
...     
(0, 'ttp://www.youtube.com/')
(1, 'ttp://www.google.no/')
(2, 'ttp://www.sol.no/')
>>> for i in range(4):
...     i, idList[index]
...     index +=1
...     
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 2, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range

This can be shorter look at this.

>>> for i in range(3):
...     i, idList[i]
...     
...     
(0, 'ttp://www.youtube.com/')
(1, 'ttp://www.google.no/')
(2, 'ttp://www.sol.no/')
>>> for i in range(4):
...     i, idList[i]
...     
...     
(0, 'ttp://www.youtube.com/')
(1, 'ttp://www.google.no/')
(2, 'ttp://www.sol.no/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 2, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
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