hi,
I want to create a matrix in Python. For example 3x4 how can i create this? thanks _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Hi,
at least two ways using only builtins occur to me:
1) A list of lists:
.>>> row1 = [4, 6, 8, 1] .>>> row2 = [2, 5, 1, 3] .>>> row3 = [2, 1, 2, 8] .>>> my_matrix_as_lists = [row1, row2, row3] .>>> print my_matrix_as_lists[1][1] 5
Note that >>> row1[1] 6
since indicies start at 0.
2) To get around that, and be more efficient with matricies with many empty cells:
.>>> my_matrix_as_dict = {(1,1):4, (1,2):6, (1,3):8,
(2,1):56, (2,3):12,
(3,1):3, (3,2):3}
.>>> my_matrix_as_dict[(3,1)] 3 .>>> my_matrix_as_dict[(2,1)] 56
So, you just can use the tuple co-ordinates you've defined in order to access cells. Note also that the list way you'd have to represent empty cells with a standard null value -- None is the usual choice. But this way, you just don't define some tuples as keys, as I didn't define (2,2) as a key. Thus:
.>>> my_matrix_as_dict[(2,2)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in -toplevel-
my_matrix_as_dict[(2,2)]
KeyError: (2, 2)You can make that more graceful with a try/except block:
.>>> try:
my_matrix_as_dict[(2,2)]
except KeyError:
print "That cell is empty"
That cell is empty
.>>>HTH,
Brian vdB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
