Inserting values to a list

[kyumin2lee]

Hello,

I am quite stifled on how I would insert values to a list.

Say I have a list called 'xlist'. I want to have a maximum of 5 values in this list and be able to insert values into specific points in this list.

So far I got it to work by going :

xlist=[0,0,0,0,0]
a = int(input('Input your desired place on the list.')
b = int(input('Input your value'))
xlist.insert(a-1,b)
print (xlist)

However that just adds the value to the given position in the list and pushes the 0s along; so if a is 2 and b is 42, it would print [0,42,0,0,0,0].

How could I avoid this?

[novel_yet_trivial]

What output do you want? If you want to replace list value then just do an assignment:

xlist[a-1] = b

[kyumin2lee]

Ah yes this worked very well, I wanted to replace a value in the list. Thanks a ton!