[Tutor] Using insert method on a list matrix

[Raj Medhekar]

Thanks that works! But what if I wanted to modify 2 of the three lists in 2 different positions? Could you please let me know how I would go about doing that?

Thanks!
-Raj




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From: Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com>
To: Raj Medhekar <cosmicsand27 at yahoo.com>; Python Tutor <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:16:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Using insert method on a list matrix

try 
 
M[0].insert(0, 'pod')



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>From: Raj Medhekar 
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>Sent: Jul 19, 2009 7:12 PM
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>To: Python Tutor 
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>Subject: [Tutor] Using insert method on a list matrix
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>I would like to know how I could use the insert method in a List matrix eg. for the matrix below
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>M=[[1,2,3], [3,2,1], [4,3,2]]
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>if wanted to insert the string 'pod' in list [0] before [1] in list [0] in M using the built in method insert How would I go about doing this? I've tried may List Comprehension possibilities but none of then worked. Below are some of the things I tried. 
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>>>> M=[[1,2,3], [3,2,1], [4,3,2]]
>>>> M.insert([1][1], 'pod')
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module>
>    M.insert([1][1], 'pod')
>IndexError: list index out of range
>>>> [row[0] for row in M.insert(1, 'pod')]
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File
> "<pyshell#20>", line 1, in <module>
>    [row[0] for row in M.insert(1, 'pod')]
>TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>>>> M.insert(1,'pod')
>>>> M
>[[1, 2, 3], 'pod', 'pod', [3, 2, 1], [4, 3, 2]]
>>>> M.insert[0](1,'pod')
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
>    M.insert[0](1,'pod')
>TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is unsubscriptable
>
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
>
>-Raj
>
>

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