Re: [Tutor] declaring list

2006-01-11 Thread Logesh Pillay
hello list I asked yesterday how we can "declare" an array in python. Thanks Brian van den Broek and Frank Schley for your responses. A[None] * n works for me. To answer Brian's question, I was writing the standard backtracking procedure to find the permutations of 1..n taken r at a time. def

Re: [Tutor] declaring list in python

2006-01-10 Thread Brian van den Broek
Logesh Pillay said unto the world upon 10/01/06 11:28 PM: > Hello list > > I want to declare a list of a specific size as global to some nested > function like so Hi Logesh, what problem are you trying to solve by doing this? Knowing that will help generate more useful answers, I suspect.

[Tutor] declaring list in python

2006-01-10 Thread Logesh Pillay
Hello list I want to declare a list of a specific size as global to some nested function like so def foo (n): A[] (of size n) def foo1 ... The only way I can think to declare the list is to use dummy values: A = [0] * n A = [] * n doesn't work. [] * n =