Beginners Question - use of variables

[Erik Max Francis]

Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:

> in Perl I used to save such a thing in a multidimensional array like
> 
> array(
>       array(string, string, int, timestamp),
>       array(string, string, int, timestamp),
>       array(string, string, int, timestamp))
> 
> So how do I save that in python and how do I get fast to one of this
> strings or int or timestamp... ?

A list of 4-tuples, or just a list of lists, comes to mind.  Difference
between Python and Perl is that with Python you don't have to worry
about awkward manipulation of references to those subarrays.

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