arrays in python

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Sep 23 16:12:24 EDT 2009


Donn wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 19:14:20 Rudolf wrote:
> 
>>I want to allocate an array and then populate it
>>using a for loop. 
> 
> You don't need to allocate anything, just use the list or dictionary types.
> 
> l=[] #empty list
> for x in range(1,5000000):
>  l.append(x)
> 
> \d

Works great if you want 4,999,999 elements.  ;-)  Omit the '1' if you 
want all five million.

~Ethan~



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