On 2014-05-24 23:05, Luis José Novoa wrote:
Hi All,

Hope you're doing great. One quick question. I am defining an array of sets 
using numpy as:

a=array([set([])]*3)

Now, if I want to add an element to the set in, lets say, a[0], and I use the 
.add(4) operation, which results in:

array([set([4]), set([4]), set([4])], dtype=object)

which I do not want. If I use the union operator

a[0] = a[0] | set([4])

then I obtain what I want:

array([set([4]), set([]), set([])], dtype=object)

Can anyone explain whay this happens?

Same reason why you shouldn't make a list of lists like so: [[]]*3

https://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list

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