Python: initialize multi-dimensional list

Question

I want to initialize a multidimensional list. Basically, I want a 10x10 grid - a list of 10 lists each containing 10 items.

Each list value should be initialized to

Answer 1

Just thought I'd add an answer because the question asked for the general n-dimensional case and I don't think that was answered yet. You can do this recursively for any number of dimensions with the following example:

n_dims = [3, 4, 5]

empty_list = 0
for n in n_dims:
    empty_list = [empty_list] * n

>>>empty_list
>>>[[[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], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]],
   [[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]]]