On 09/16/2013 07:43 AM, Arturo B wrote: > It uses a list comprenhension to generate the Latin Square, I'm am a newbie > to Python, and I've tried to figure out how this is evaluated: > > a = [1, 2, 3, 4] > n = len(a) > [[a[i - j] for i in range(n)] for j in range(n)] > > I don't understand how the "i" and the "j" changes. > On my way of thought it is evaluated like this:
It helps to convert it to a conventional for loop to see how it works: a = [1, 2, 3, 4] n = len(a) resultj = [] for j in range(n): resulti = [] for i in range(n): resulti.append(a[i-j]) resultj.append(resulti) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list