On Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:48:11 AM UTC-7, MRAB wrote: > On 2012-09-23 19:31, jimbo1qaz wrote: > > > spots[y][x]=mark fails with a "'str' object does not support item > > assignment" error,even though: > > >>>> a=[["a"]] > > >>>> a[0][0]="b" > > > and: > > >>>> a=[["a"]] > > >>>> a[0][0]=1000000 > > > both work. > > > Spots is a nested list created as a copy of another list. > > > > > The error suggests that spots[y] is actually a string. Printing > > repr(spots) and repr(spots[y]) should tell you whether it is.
ya, I'm an idiot. I accidentally made a string instead of an array. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
