## TL;DR
You indexed position N in an array of length N (valid positions are 0 to N-1), or a computed index array contains values past the edge. Fix it by printing `arr.shape` and the offending indices, then clipping or filtering them into range. It is almost always an off-by-one or an index computed from 1-based data.

```text
IndexError: index 10 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 10
```

## Use this when
- Numpy raises IndexError on `arr[i]`
- Fancy indexing with an index array fails
- Loop-generated indices overshoot the array

## Not for
- Pandas `.iloc`/`.loc` errors (similar idea, check pandas indexing)
- Broadcasting shape mismatches, different error
- SQL out-of-range, different system

## Steps

1. Print the shape and the bad index:

```python
print(arr.shape, idx)
```
Expected output: the array dims and the index value. The message usually names both already.

2. Check the max of a computed index array:

```python
print(idx.min(), idx.max(), len(arr))
```
Expected output: if `idx.max() >= len(arr)`, there is your overshoot.

3. Find which positions are out of range:

```python
bad = np.where((idx [ 0) | (idx ]= len(arr)))[0]
print(bad[:10], idx[bad[:10]])
```
Expected output: the positions in idx that are invalid, and their values.

4. Fix at the source: 1-based to 0-based is the classic:

```python
idx = idx - 1  # if the indices came from 1-based data (IDs, Lua, R, SQL row numbers)
```
Expected output: indices now in range, no error.

5. Or clip defensively when out-of-range means "edge":

```python
idx = np.clip(idx, 0, len(arr) - 1)
```
Expected output: no error. Only do this when clamping to the edge is semantically right.

## Variant phrasings

### numpy index out of bounds axis 0
The row axis. Your index (or index array) exceeds the first dimension.

### IndexError too many indices for array
Different error: you passed more index dimensions than the array has (e.g. `arr[i, j]` on a 1-D array). Check `arr.ndim`.

### off by one error numpy indexing
The perennial cause: `range(1, n+1)` used as indices, or `<=` instead of `<` in a loop bound.

## Why it happens
Numpy is 0-based and strict: valid indices for length N are 0..N-1, and it raises rather than wrapping (unlike negative indices, which DO wrap and are legal). Index arrays computed from external 1-based systems, or `argmax`/`where` results used without adjustment, overshoot by exactly one.

## Edge cases
- Negative indices are legal and wrap around; `-1` is the last element, not an error.
- Boolean masks must match the dimension length exactly; a wrong-length mask raises a different error (boolean index did not match).
- `np.take` with `mode='clip'` or `'wrap'` handles edges without manual clipping.
- Empty arrays: any index, even 0, is out of bounds. Check `len(arr) > 0` first in generated code.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_Zb8juG-dEna4tvygsBNqnw

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