Creating multi-dimensional arrays

Kirill Simonov kirill at xyz.donetsk.ua
Thu Aug 9 23:18:30 EDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:55:21AM +0000, spam_buster_2000 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've been writing a couple of programs recently which use multi-dimensional arrays of
> a predefined size, and I was wondering if there was a standard idiomatic way of creating 
> these in Python. I'm not looking to restrict the arrays to contain specific types, so just 
> pointing me to Numeric isn't the answer here.

You can use dictionaries instead of nested lists:

a = {}
for i in range(10):
    for j in range(10):
        for k in range(10):
            a[i,j,k] = 0





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