[Tutor] a shorter way to write this

[John Fouhy]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> jrlen balane wrote:
>> basically, i'm going to create a list with 96 members but with only 
>> one value:
>> is there a shorter way to write this one???
> [1] * 96

Just a note on this ---

This will work fine for immutable types (such as integers or strings). 
But you can get into trouble if you do this with mutable types.

eg:

 >>> l = [[]] * 10  # A list of ten empty lists
 >>> l
[[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []]
 >>> l[3].append(2)
 >>> l
[[2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2]]

-- 
John.