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How to create a list with all values being zero
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I've written a program that asks the user to input integers which will be placed in a list. I only want to input four integers. I'm looking for ways to make my list all zeros. Doesn't appear that this is as intuitive as arrays are in C++. Anyway this is what I got:

numbers = [0] * 4

index = 0

while index < 4:
    numbers[index] = int(input("Enter a value for the list: "))
    index += 1

print("\nHere is the values you entered: ", end='')

for i in numbers:
    print(str(i) + " ", end='')

print()
print()
According to my book the repetition operator makes multiple copies of a list and then it joins them all together. So is it doing numbers[0] + numbers[0] + numbers[0] + numbers[0] to finally get numbers[0, 0, 0, 0]?

Isn't there an easier way to initialize all elements to zero?
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How to create a list with all values being zero - by 357mag - Jul-13-2019, 08:42 PM

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