Python Conway's Game of Life

Question

I\'m trying to make Conway\'s Game of Life where the user enters how big they want the grid and which cells start off as alive. Here\'s what I have:

def firstBo         


        

Answer 1

The problem is with your array initialization:

newList = myList

This isn't making a copy of myList, it's just making newList refer to myList, so then you only have one array. You can copy a 2D array like this:

from copy import copy, deepcopy

newList = deepcopy(myList)