newbie : array initialization, anyone ?

[Curtis Jensen]

Gerson Kurz wrote:
> 
> you can initialize a fixed-size array using something like
> 
>         array = [0] * 10
> 
> now, one would think that you can initialize a multidimensional array
> like this:
> 
>         multidim = [ [0] * 10 ] * 3
> 
> but now, all 3 elements in multidim are references to the same single
> array, so that if you type
> 
>         multidim[0][0] = 1
>         print multidim
> 
> you actually get three 1 in all those 0s. Where did my thinking go
> wrong along these lines ?

If you use NumPy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/) you can do:
  array = zeros([10]) or 
  array = ones([10]) if you want initualized to ones.

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