Lesson 9. Two-dimensional lists (arrays)

1/21. Nested lists: processing and printing

In real-world tasks you often have to store rectangular data table. [say more on this!] Such tables are called matrices or two-dimensional arrays. In Python any table can be represented as a list of lists (a list, where each element is in turn a list). For example, here's the program that creates a numerical table with two rows and three columns, and then makes some manipulations with it:

The first element of a here — a[0] — is a list of numbers [1, 2, 3]. The first element of this new list is a[0][0] == 1; moreover, a[0][1] == 2, a[0][2] == 3, a[1][0] == 4, a[1][1] == 5, a[1][2] == 6.

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