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The document discusses the use of two-dimensional lists in Python, particularly for representing game boards like tic-tac-toe and connect4. It highlights the advantages of using 2D lists over multiple variables or single-dimensional lists for organizing data and simplifying operations. The document also provides examples of creating and printing these lists using list comprehension and the pprint module.

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2D-Lists__intro

The document discusses the use of two-dimensional lists in Python, particularly for representing game boards like tic-tac-toe and connect4. It highlights the advantages of using 2D lists over multiple variables or single-dimensional lists for organizing data and simplifying operations. The document also provides examples of creating and printing these lists using list comprehension and the pprint module.

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Two-Dimensional Lists

As you know the elements of your list can be anything, even lists and tuples
e.g. student = ["Jake", 16, ["Math", "Comp.Sci", "Physics"]]

This is valid and some people will do this in Python. I don't like it much. If I want to create an object that
represents a person I'll make a person class and make an instance of it. A more complicated list that I do like
is a list of lists. e.g.

>>>ticBoard = [["X", "", "X"],["", "O", ""],["O", "", ""]]

This looks messy, I know, lets look at it closer.


>>> ticBoard[0]
['X', '', 'X']
>>> ticBoard[1][1]
'O'

How this board could be drawn on the screen is just a personal preference, as long as I am consistent, it will
work out. I like to be consistent with the way things are already drawn on the screen.

You'll notice this gets a lot easier if I declare my 2-dim list


like this:

ticBoard = [["X", " ", "X"],


[" ", "O", " "],
["O", " ", " "]]

I could store the values in a number of ways. I could use:

9 different variables: tic00 = "X" tic01 = "O” …


A single dimensional list
ticBoard = ["X", " ", "X", " ", "O", " ", "O", " ", " "]

The advantage of using a 2-dimensional list is that I can easily separate the issue of finding the row/column
locations from doing something with it. It also can make checking rows and columns easier. This example
is fairly small, so you might be tempted to use 9 variables. What if we were playing connect4 instead; that's
a 7x6 board, or 42 variables.

You can use list comprehension to create a 3x3 grid for a tic-tac-toe game:
e.g.
board=[[0 for i in range(3)] for j in range(3)]
Try the following program (Creating connect4 board)

from pprint import pprint #pprint is used to print 2D lists in rows and columns

connect=[[0 for i in range(7)] for j in range(6)]

pprint(connect)

Here is the 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, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

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