[Tutor] Nesting lists?

Francois Granger francois.granger@free.fr
Fri Apr 25 09:46:03 2003


At 20:46 +0200 24/04/2003, in message [Tutor] Nesting lists?, Wayne 
Koorts wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to have 'an array of arrays'.  Yes, yes I know it's not an 
>array in python but a list.  What I'd like to do is something to the 
>effect of:
>
>data = [data1[], data2[], data3[]]
>
>but that just gives me an error.  I thought of maybe using a dictionary?

>>>  data1 = ['a']
>>>  data2 = ['b']
>>>  data3 = ['c']
>>>  data = []
>>>  data.append(data1)
>>>  data.append(data2)
>>>  data.append(data3)
>>>  data
[['a'], ['b'], ['c']]


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