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> On Dec 12, 11:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
(snip)
>
> When you say python automatically allocates memory, what would you do
> if you don't know the size of the list
thelist = []
thelist.append('Ever')
thelist.append('bothered')
thelist.append('reading')
thelist.append('the')
thelist.append('fine')
thelist.append('manual')
thelist.append('?')
print thelist
> of, say for example, the
> nearest pairs between the two groups. I would probably iterate over
> all the pairs and create a new list. I did a similar operation in
> another program, but I had to initialize the list (statically) with x
> = [0]*50 before I could use it in the for loop.
You'd be better learning how to properly use lists and iterations in
Python... While you're at it, add list comprehensions,
iterators/generators and itertools to the list (pun intented).
HTH
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