problems defining an empty list

Manuel Hendel manuel at hendel.net
Wed Sep 25 04:10:11 EDT 2002


Thanks a lot, that worked fine.

Manuel

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:00:31AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 00:54, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:40:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > it sounds like you have a hidden piece of whitespace.  Perhaps the code
> > > is indented when it should not be?  If the code is not in a loop, class,
> > > if structure, etc then it should not be indented.
> >
> > Actually it is in a ... structure.
> > [....]
> > # empty list for lines per all domains
> > linesperdomains = []
> >
> > for domain in domains:
> >     # empty list for lines
> >     domainlines = []
> >     for neededline in neededlines:
> >         if domain == neededline[0]:
> >             domainlines.append(neededline)
> >     print len(domainlines)
> >
> >     # empty list for lines per domain
> >     linesperdomain = []
> >     linesperdomain = [domain, domainlines]
> >     print linesperdomain
> > [....]
> >
> > This ist just a part of the script.
> >
> 
> One of python's annoyances is it treats a tab and a space as unique indent 
> levels.  So if you happen to use a space everywhere but one line or vice 
> versa that can mess things up.
> 
> I meant to comment on something else too.
> 
> linesperdomain = [] is not needed since you initialize it to a new list on the 
> next line.
> 
> 

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