Use range(n-1) instead of range [n-1].
*Christophe BAL* *Enseignant de mathématiques en Lycée **et développeur Python amateur* *---* *French math teacher in a "Lycée" **and **Python **amateur developer* 2015-06-04 23:44 GMT+02:00 Phoenix <anirbit.mukher...@gmail.com>: > > I am trying to define a function "elem" which will create me a list of > length n which has 1 at the i^th position. > > def elem (i,n): > A = [] > for k in range [n-1]: > if k != i: > A.append([0]) > if k == i: > A.append([1]) > > return A > > elem (1,5) > > Why does the above not work? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.