Python bug? Indexing to matrices

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Tue Jul 12 01:44:05 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, David <davidbtdt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should the following line work for defining a matrix with zeros?
>
> c= [[0]*col]*row
>
> where "col" is the number of columns in the matrix and "row" is of
> course the number of rows.

Nope. See the FAQ:
http://docs.python.org/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list

Cheers,
Chris



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