Multi-dimensional list initialization

[Ethan Furman]

Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2012 5:41 AM, "Gregory Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz 
> <mailto:greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>> wrote:
>  >
>  > If anything is to be done in this area, it would be better
>  > as an extension of list comprehensions, e.g.
>  >
>  >   [[None times 5] times 10]
>  >
>  > which would be equivalent to
>  >
>  >   [[None for _i in xrange(5)] for _j in xrange(10)]
> 
> I think you're right that the meaning of list-int multiplication 
> can't/shouldn't be changed if this way.
> 
> A multidimensional list comprehension would be useful even for people 
> who are using numpy as it's common to use a list comprehension to 
> initialise a numpy array.
> 
> A more modest addition for the limited case described in this thread 
> could be to use exponentiation:
> 
>  >>> [0] ** (2, 3)
> [[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]]

What would happen with

--> [{}] ** (2, 3)

or

--> [my_custom_container()] ** (2, 3)

?

~Ethan~