How to get a sublist of a list between two words

Question

Starting from a list like this:

words = [\'tree\', \'water\', \'dog\', \'soap\', \'bike\', \'cat\', \'bird\']

I want to get the sublist bet

Answer 1

This can be accomplished with the .index() method of lists, and with the slice notation..

words = ['tree', 'water', 'dog', 'soap', 'cat', 'bird']
start_index = words.index(start_word)
end_index = words.index(end_word)
sublist = words[start_index:end_index+1]

Answer 2

def sublist_two_words(array, start_word, end_word):
    result = []
    for word in array:
        if result or word == start_word:
            result.push(word)
        if word == end_word:
            break
    return result

This way even if there is not end_word it gets the whole remaining list. If I got correctly your task.