I'm fairly new to python so I'm sorry if this is a fairly noob question. But I'm writing a 2D list composed of data from .txt file with a for loop (all that code works), but the loop seems to be overwriting all my previously written data each time to passes though even though I'm
This isn't my actually code, but sum up the problem I'm having.
stuff = [[None]*3]*10
for index in range(10):
stuff[index][2]=index
print(stuff)
[[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9],[None, None, 9]]
Why are all the values being returned as 9, why what do I have to do to get it to return as
[[None, None, 1],[None, None, 2],[None, None, 3],[None, None, 4],[None, None, 5],[None, None, 6],[None, None, 7],[None, None, 8],[None, None, 9]]
The reason that this is happening is because of your first line:
stuff = [[None]*3]*10
What this is actually doing is creating only 1 array of [[None]*3] and then referencing it 10 times.
So your array is actually similar to:
[[[None]*3], reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0, reference 0]
Change your first line to:
stuff = [[None]*3 for i in xrange(10)]
Which will create a unique element at each position within the array.