Newbie: How do I implement an 2 element integer array in Python.?

[Steven D. Majewski]

You can also use dictionaries indexed by two element tuples:

>>> array = {}
>>> array[1,2] = (1,2)
>>> array[2,2] = None
>>> print array[1,2]
(1, 2)

This is handy for small multi-dimensional arrays, very large but 
sparse arrays, or anyplace where you might want to catch a reference
to an uninitialized item:

>>> print array[0,0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
KeyError: (0, 0)


Or use UserDict and  {}.get with a default arg to make a sparse
array that returns zero for uninitialized values. 


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