I'm sorry, but what's wrong with: radix = [ [] ] * 256 Cheers, Bart
"John" writes: >> For my code of radix sort, I need to initialize 256 buckets. My code looks a >> little clumsy: >> >> radix=[[]] >> for i in range(255): >> radix.append([]) >> >> any better code to initalize this list? >> > > Typically you'd say > radix = [[] for i in xrange(256)] > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
