"Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote > If you just want an empty array as per Java you can use a > list comprehension: > > out = [[0] * 4 for n in range(4)] > This isn't really empty of course, its full of zeros, the nearest to a truly empty array you can do in Python would be to use None for the value. Sory for any confusion, Alan G.