Newbie confused by 2 dimensional list

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> 
> If you are desparate to avoid the for loop you can always do:
> 
> >>> import copy
> >>> L = map(copy.copy, [["*"]*2]*2)
> >>> L[0][0] = '#'
> >>> L
> [['#', '*'], ['*', '*']]

A bit less desparate, but with lambda:

>>> L = map(lambda x:x[:], [["*"]*2]*2)
>>> L[0][0] = '#'
>>> L
[['#', '*'], ['*', '*']]

Peter
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