On Mar 9, 8:30 pm, "kghose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The following code > > listoflists = [[]]*2 > listoflists[0].append(1) > > appends(1) to both listoflists[0] and listoflists[1] (which I did not > expect) > > while > > listoflists = [[]]*2 > listoflists[0] = [1] > listoflists[0].append(2) > > works as expected.i.e. only listoflists[0] gets 2 appended to it and > any further operations work as expected. > > I can't figure out why. Any help with explaining this would be much > appreciated > > thanks! > -Kaushik
OK, I looked at the previous few threads and I think I understand why. I refered to this page http://www.python.org/doc/faq/programming/#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list thanks -kaushik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
