On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:26:01 +0000, kj wrote: > ...just bit me in the "fuzzy posterior".
It's not a bug. Just because it doesn't behave as you would like it to behave doesn't mean it isn't behaving as designed. > The best I can come up with is the hideous > > lol = [[] for _ in xrange(500)] That's not hideous. > Is there something better? What did one do before comprehensions were > available? I suppose in that case one would have to go all the way with > > lol = [None] * 500 > for i in xrange(len(lol)): > lol[i] = [] > > Yikes. 10 miles uphill, both ways... What's wrong with that? lol = [] for _ in xrange(500): lol.append([]) is a simple alternative too, although the list comp is better. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
