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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:34:09 +1300
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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)]

-- 
Greg