Steve Turner wrote: > I finally decided to have a go with Python and am working through the > tutorial.
Great! > On my old BBC Computer [...] These were nice machines... > In Python I thought I could do this with: > > >>> a=[0,0,0] > >>> b=[a,a,a] > >>> b > [[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]] > >>> b[1][1]='foo' > >>> b > [[0, 'foo', 0], [0, 'foo', 0], [0, 'foo', 0]] > >>> > > I can understand why as b[1][1]='foo' is actually changing a[1] > > Apart from doing something like > a=[0,0,0] > b=[0,0,0] > c=[0,0,0] > d=[a,b,c] > > is there a better way of creating d?? It's a FAQ: http://www.python.org/doc/faq/programming/#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
