[TriZPUG] filling lists

[Chris Rossi]

list_name[index] = element

chris


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> I'm using a list to hold a 2-D array of pixels, since AFAIK there are no
> arrays in python. My initial code assigned pixels in varying orders (index
> could be anything) but I soon found that
>
> list_name.insert(index, element)
>
> pushed all elements beyond index one slot further down the list. I could
> first use `del list_name(index)` first, but this is more complicated than I
> want (assignement would be a function which did a del and then insert; it
> would have to be passed the list, index and element).
>
> I can rearrange my code to fill the list in order from index=0 without
> causing major grief.
>
> I assume there's no simple way of doing the following assignement
>
> list_name(index) = element
>
> Is filling the list in order the usual way of handling this problem?
>
> Thanks Joe
>
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