On Oct 8, 10:27 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > v = [0 for i in range(20)] > > Absolutely not. Such a code snippet is very common, in fact I've done it > myself, but it is a "hammer solution" -- to a small boy with a hammer, > everything looks like a nail that needs hammering. Writing such a list > comprehension is a "list comp solution". > > > v = [0] * 20 > > Yes, this is the solution.
But the list comp version will work as expected for mutable types, whereas the 'solution' only works for immutable types. If anything, I feel like the list comp version is the correct solution because of its reliability, whereas the multiplication form feels like either a lucky naive approach or relies on the reader to know the type of the initialising value and its mutability. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
