30-seconds-of-code/snippets/initialize_2d_list.md

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title	tags	expertise	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Initialize 2D list	list	intermediate	blog_images/succulent-7.jpg	2019-10-25T10:11:51+03:00	2020-11-02T19:28:05+02:00

Initializes a 2D list of given width and height and value.

• Use a list comprehension and range() to generate h rows where each is a list with length h, initialized with val.
• Omit the last argument, val, to set the default value to None.

def initialize_2d_list(w, h, val = None):
  return [[val for x in range(w)] for y in range(h)]

initialize_2d_list(2, 2, 0) # [[0, 0], [0, 0]]