On Saturday 07 November 2009 22:56:29 alan@ajackson.org wrote: > I want to build a 2D array of lists, and so I need to initialize the > array with empty lists : > > myarray = array([[[],[],[]] ,[[],[],[]]]) In [1]: [[[]]*3]*2 Out[1]: [[[], [], []], [[], [], []]] Hope this helps. Ravi