On 13 Nov, 21:26, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > ...just bit me in the "fuzzy posterior". The best I can come up with > is the hideous > > lol = [[] for _ in xrange(500)] > > Is there something better?
That's generally the accepted way of creating a LOL. > 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... > >>> lol = map(lambda L: [], xrange(5)) >>> [id(i) for i in lol] [167614956, 167605004, 167738060, 167737996, 167613036] Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
