Declare list of large size

[Neal Norwitz]

Aaron Ginn wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I've just glossed over this in the documentation, but what is
> the simplest way to declare a list of large size?  Is there something
> analogous to the following in C:
> 
> int list[100];
> 
> I can do this by doing the following:
> 
> list = []
> i=0
> while i < 100:
>    list.append[0]
>    i = i + 1
> 
> which will give me a list 100 elements long with all values
> initialized to 0, but I'm assuming there has to be an easier way to do
> this?  Am I correct in this assumption?

Yes:

>>> [0]* 100
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
>>> 

Neal