Alex Martelli wrote: > Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> range(3)**2 >> But why isn't this interpreted as [0, 1, 4] like it is in Mathematica? > > Since range(3)*2 is [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2], it would be horribly, painfully > inconsistent if **2 was interpreted as "square each item".
Yes. Python does not interpreate the product of a list with a number as a scalar product. Otherwise range(3)*2 should be [0, 1, 4] as well. For doing such things I would use a vector subtype of list. -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
