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I am trying to change something in every second element of my array. In that element then I only want to modify the 5th element (it's an array of arrays). I want to do so by just having a step of 2 in my while-loop. Therefore I added i += 2.

Now it's weird: when I put only in: PaylikeTableWithFee[i] = 'hello' Then it works and only every second array is modified and set to 'hello'.

However when I do so: PaylikeTableWithFee[i][5] = 'hello' Then every array is modified although the loop has a step of 2. 

i = 1
while i < len(PaylikeTableWithFee):

    PaylikeTableWithFee[i][5] = 'hello'

    i += 2

Normally only the 5th element of every 2th array inside the main-array should be edited.

Cleared
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    What is `PaylikeTableWithFee`? An array? An in that case an array of what? – Cleared May 02 '19 at 13:38
  • You'll likely want to [slice](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/509211/understanding-slice-notation) like `arr[1::2]` – Andrew Allen May 02 '19 at 13:44
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  • @scenatic you need to define more on how you declare `PaylikeTableWithFee` because that is probably where the problem is. If I define it like `PaylikeTableWithFee = [[0] * 6,[0] * 6,[0] * 6,[0] * 6,[0] * 6]` only the fith element in every second element is changed, just as you want. – Cleared May 02 '19 at 13:55

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The issue is likely in how you created the array of arrays. I suspect you crated it with something like PaylikeTableWithFee = [[0,1,2,3,4,5]] * n. This only creates one inner array PaylikeTableWithFee will be then an array of the same reference n times. Therefore using PaylikeTableWithFee[0][5] = 'hello' would change (what seems like) every inner array.

Make sure that the PaylikeTableWithFee different inner arrays, for example like PaylikeTableWithFee = [[0,1,2,3,4,5] for _ in n].

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  • Well I created it the following way: for i in range(len(PaylikeTable)): if (i == 0): PaylikeTableWithFee.append(PaylikeTable[i]) else: PaylikeTableWithFee.append(PaylikeTable[i]) PaylikeTableWithFee.append(PaylikeTable[i]) So I guess that your answer is the solution, but I don't know yet how to implement it codewise. Payliketable is another array consisting of arrays and I wanted to duplicate every array of it. – scenatic May 02 '19 at 14:14
  • If paytable is storing just simple integers/floats/etc, than instead of doing `PaylikeTableWithFee.append(PaylikeTable[i])` do `PaylikeTableWithFee.append(PaylikeTable[i].copy())`. Otherwise try looking into the `copy` module, specifically `copy.deepcopy`. – Faboor May 05 '19 at 22:09