You example doesn't work because you tried to access the element with a string, which was ALSO converted to an int. https://repl.it/repls/CompetentBlondInstruc

You example doesn't work because you tried to access the element with a string, which was ALSO converted to an int. https://repl.it/repls/CompetentBlondInstructions https://repl.it/repls/CompetentBlondInstructions Here I changed your string index to an int and it still says success!