> I want to write a program in python using integer arrays. you can :)
> I wish to calculate formulas using 200 digit integers. no problem > I could not find any documentation in python manual about declaring arrays. > > I searched the internet read here http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html maybe list are what you are looking for > and found an example that said I must declare > > from Numeric import * yes, one can use Numeric for this taks too > and I downloaded a numerical python extension, > > but still have not found a way to declare an array of given length. > > The zeros function always gives me an error message. >>> import Numeric as N, random as rand >>> nums = [33 ** rand.randint(10,100) for i in range(200)] >>> len(nums) 200 >>> nums[0] 1666465812864030391541732975677083441749008906546726522024522041932256405404932170047036994592860856233379702595619607481259213235163454890913L >>> >>> a = N.array(nums) >>> len(a) 200 >>> a[0] 1666465812864030391541732975677083441749008906546726522024522041932256405404932170047036994592860856233379702595619607481259213235163454890913L >>> by the way, you know you can use interactive Python iterpreter and there is dir and help function >>> dir(a) ['__copy__', '__deepcopy__', 'astype', 'byteswapped', 'copy', 'iscontiguous', 'itemsize', 'resize', 'savespace', 'spacesaver', 'tolist', 'toscalar', 'tostring', 'typecode'] >>> dir(nums) ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__', 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] >>> Regards, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
