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[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Ben Duncan wrote:
>> Ok, I need to CREATE a "Character" array that is 132 characters wide and
>> 66 rows deep in Python. I need to stuff text strings into this array.
>> 
>> How do I go about doing this ?
>
>myArray = [
>    "ABCDEF...132",  # 0
>    #...
>    "ABCDEF...132",  # 131
>]
>
># --OR--
>
>myArray = []
>myArray.append("ABCDEF...132")  # 0
>#...
>myArray.append("ABCDEF...132")  # 131
>
>Course, you can always use some "for" loop.
>
>row = 65
>col = 132
>newChar = "X"
>myArray[col][row] = newChar

You don't necessarily need to have a doubly indexed array as
strings are automatically addressable as lists (immutable lists,
but lists anyway).

>>> s = '123'
>>> s[2]
'3'

Bill
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