[Khantan]

English is not my strong language, please considerate it.

What I'm trying to do is make a 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 matrix of "~" signs, that would get replaced by "X" 3 times,

depending on coordinates given by x and y imputs, appended in s=[]

so for example if i have a matrix 3x3
~~~
~~~
~~~
and coordinate (0,0),

the result should be:
X~~
~~~
~~~


As easy as it sounds it's not easy for me still, I get problem even if my code seems logical to me.

Some help would be so much appreciated, thanks. />/>

a = []

n=0
while n<3 or n>5:
    n=int(raw_input("type matrix: "))
for i in range (n):
    for j in range (n):
        print "~",
    print "\n",
def zdruzi(a):
    for row in a:
        print " ".join(row)
zdruzi(a)

s = []
for i in range(3):
    x=int(raw_input("x: "))
    y=int(raw_input("y: "))
    s.append(int(x))
    s.append(int(y))
    a[int(x)][int(y)]="X"

    if (x<0) or (x>(n-1)):
        print "not good"
        break

    print a

This post has been edited by macosxnerd101: 22 November 2012 - 04:26 PM
Reason for edit:: Please use a descriptive title

[darek9576]

Once you cast x and y to int(), they are integers, so no need to do it again.

[Khantan]

Thanks for your fast answer.

But I'm afraid this doesn't solve my problem.

The problem is

IndexError: list index out of range

If that helps you find my problem

[Simown]

Hello! I had a look at your program and this seems to be the problem:

When you are trying to create the matrix you are not actually populating a at all! It will be empty!

You:

print "~"

But you mean to set :

a[i][j] = "~"

Do you understand what I mean? Also, a is not a 2 dimensional array, it's a 1 dimensional structure at the moment. If you need more help fixing it we'd be happy to help.

[Khantan]

Fixed the problem in another forum


After reading n, i inserted

a = [ [ '~' for _ in range(n) ] for _ in range(n) ]

now works.

Halleluyah

Simown, on 22 November 2012 - 05:06 PM, said:

Hello! I had a look at your program and this seems to be the problem:

When you are trying to create the matrix you are not actually populating a at all! It will be empty!

You:

print "~"

But you mean to set :

a[i][j] = "~"

Do you understand what I mean? Also, a is not a 2 dimensional array, it's a 1 dimensional structure at the moment. If you need more help fixing it we'd be happy to help.

Didn't see your post, you must've posted a few seconds before me.


It's so simple now, that I know the answer, I'm almost ashamed now. Thank you anyway!!

[Simown]

Yes. Maybe I was too slow posting Glad it works now!