Month: <span>December 2001</span>

RockMom: “Music has power over me and all of us. It transcends time and place, changes perceptions. Surely those who would control others absolutely must forbid it.”

Thanks to all who posted answers to my question about what it means to use a * operator on a list (sequence) in Python.

Michael Bernstein pointed out that [0] is a list, not a dictionary, Zach found me the docs on python.org, and also wanted to know why I would write 2 * 2 instead of 4 (because I was quoting some code, replacing a variable name with its value), and mom says anything * 0 is 0…

But in Python, that may not be true. I guess it depends on whether you think [0, 0, 0, 0] == 0.