fill a sequence

[Rainer Deyke]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.971504563.1594.python-list at python.org...
> > e.g. I want to create a sequence of 5 0's
>
> [0] * 5
>
> >     a = [0, 0, 0, 0]
>
> a = [0] * 4

Ever since I accidentally used [[]] * 2, my preference has been to use list
comprehensions here.

a = [0 for i in range(4)]


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