So I am trying to make a jagged array just like in other languages like C#, Java.
I tried using this code
array = [[0] * 5] * 5
print(list(array))
Which gave this output
[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]
Which is great!
But the issue is when I try to modify a value in this array, all the arrays get modified. Here is the code:
array = [[0] * 5] * 5
array[2][3] = 5
print(list(array))
And this is the output
[[0, 0, 0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 0, 5, 0]]
What I was hoping for is something similar to this
[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 5, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]
Any idea why this value assignment is happening to all the arrays?
