2d lists

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

SunX wrote:
> What is the best way to assign a 2d lists?  Something like;
> 
> for i in range(10):
>     for j in range(10):
>         aList[i][j] = i*j
> 
> Thank you in advance.

If you want a list of lists, you could do:

for i in range(10):
    L = aList[i] = []
    for j in range(10):
        L[j] = i*j

A completely different option is to use a dict for 2d data:

d = {}

for i in range(10):
    for j in range(10):
      d[(i,j)] = i*j

Notice the index is a tuple.

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Shalabh