Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, David <davidbtdt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should the following line work for defining a matrix with zeros?
>
> c= [[0]*col]*row
>
> where "col" is the number of columns in the matrix and "row" is of
> course the number of rows.

Nope. See the FAQ:
http://docs.python.org/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list

Cheers,
Chris

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Python bug? Indexing to matrices David <davidbtdt@gmail.com> - 2011-07-11 22:39 -0700
  Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-07-11 22:44 -0700
  Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-12 15:59 +1000
  Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-07-12 05:59 -0700
    Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-07-12 06:03 -0700
    Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices David <davidbtdt@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 06:23 -0700

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