Memory problem

[Simon Forman]

Yi Xing wrote:
> On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a
> pre-specified number of elements, something like
> int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yi Xing

You seldom need to do that in python, but it's easy enough:

new_list = [0 for notused in xrange(100)]

or if you already have a list:

my_list.extend(0 for notused in xrange(100))

HTH,
~Simon