insertion in lists

wes weston wweston at att.net
Wed Mar 3 14:42:20 EST 2004



Lupe wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'm trying to have a kind of multi-dimensional list which seems to me to be
> the best way to have an array of not known extension, at the begining of
> the program.
> 
> if I have:
>         element
> 
>         list [0]
> and want to have list[0][0]
>                  list[0][1]
> 
> how can I insert the element to that list[0][0], for example?
> just to put things clearer, if I wanted to insert the element in list[0] I
> could do list.insert(0,element).
> 
> I've tried list[0].insert(0,element) but gives me an error.
> 
> 
> Luis

Luis,
    Is this what you want?

 >>> list = []
 >>> list.insert(0,[])
 >>> list[0].insert(0,5)
 >>> list
[[5]]

wes




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