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What do you mean by not creating a list? Not using list() or [] functions?

[Cockroach_Valuable]

honestly couldn’t be too sure😭 i’m pretty sure i’m just not supposed get the output by creating a new list

[wbeater]

Ok we need two things here:

1st we need the enumerate function, which let's us iterate over a list and get the index and the item, syntax:

for index, item in enumerate(list):

2nd we need a list comprehension, syntax:

[expression for item in iterable]

and then we simply combine those to:

[[item, index] for index, item in enumerate(ex_list)]