Finding specific values with array

[toyotajon93]

Hey guys I hope you can give some help, I have read alot and cannot come up with a solution.

Here is what I'm trying to do, I return a set of values from a web request

[[1, 0, 1], [2, 0, 1], [3, 0, 1], [4, 0, 1], [5, 0, 1], [6, 0, 1], [7, 0, 1], [8, 0, 1], [9, 0, 1], [10, 0, 1], [11, 0, 1], [12, 0, 1], [13, 0, 1], [14, 0, 1], [15, 4431, 1], [16, 0, 1], [17, 0, 1]]

The first number can go from either 1 to 1 or 1 to 18. I need a statement that the number of returns doesnt matter. So that I could get 1 value such a [1,0,1] or to values [1, 0, 1], [2, 0, 1], [3, 0, 1], [4, 0, 1], [5, 0, 1], [6, 0, 1], [7, 0, 1], [8, 0, 1], [9, 0, 1], [10, 0, 1].

I then want to take the second number and run if statements off of it. Here is my code so far, I just cannot seem to get it to run right. Any adv, I have changed around the length and other information? Im sure its an easy fix but my hair wants to fall out. Any help is greatly appreciated. I put the print statement in there just to make sure I'm not crazy when i was coding. It works without the if, so I'm lost... Thanks guys!

    #Get troop counts
    troopsnumber = getTroopsAvailable(city)
    available_troops = []
    for troops in troopsnumber:
        available_troops.append(troops)

    print available_troops

    if len(available_troops) == 14:  
        overlord = available_troops[14][1]
        print "You have ", overlord, " many Overlord"

[TrustyTony]

If len of list is 14, last index is 13, so line 10 does not make sense. It is more clear to index the last element of list with -1.

[toyotajon93]

In this case the total length was 15. Each return can have a different total number of lines. That is what I am trying to overcome. I did get this to return a result:

if available_troops[16][1] > 1:
            khak = available_troops[16][1]
            print "You have ", khak, " many Overlord"

I got this to work wih the logic above but when a new city is loaded depending on the return values, in this instance, [16][1] does not exist so it errors out. I cannot figure out how to get it to use a range correctly.

[TrustyTony]

Why you are not using

if available_troops[-1][1] > 1:

as I said in previous post?

[Gribouillis]

You can get a list of indexes for which there is more than 1 item

>>> available_troops = [[1, 0, 1], [2, 0, 1], [3, 0, 1], [4, 0, 1], [5, 0, 1], [6, 0, 1], [7, 0, 1], [8, 0, 1], [9, 0, 1], [10, 0, 1], [11, 0, 1], [12, 0, 1], [13, 0, 1], [14, 0, 1], [15, 4431, 1], [16, 0, 1], [17, 0, 1]]
>>> 
>>> indexes = [i for (i, triple) in enumerate(available_troops) if triple[1] > 1]
>>> indexes
[14]

so you know that available_troops[14][1] > 1.

>>> print available_troops[indexes[0]][1]
4431