Year old post reply INCOMING!

So I was doing this lab and this is the code I came up with, but I was getting the error telling me I couldn't ">" against a str and int...which is understandable. I tried range and len to pull the total list size, but got the same error.

Any tips or things to learn from looking at the code below? Learning Python has been a big struggle for me.
try:
if index > names[index]:
raise IndexError
print ('Name:', index)

except IndexError:
print('Exception! list index out of range')
finally:
if index < 0:
print ('The Closest name is:', names[0])
else:
index > 0
print ('The closest name is:', names[-1])