Thanks, Erik. That would work for me. Avi On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:00:09 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote: >Avi Kak wrote: > >> Can the same be done in Python? > >Not directly, but you can just fill it with something you're not going >to use: > > arra = [None] * 999