Python is getting on my nerves
#mdate May  3 00:15:08 2006

Add lacking dynamic assignment ability to my "I wish Python had Foo" list.
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Python does not appear to have dynamically assignable arrays. Where are we, C? Assembly? When I assign past the end of the array, I mean resize the god damned array. Thanks.

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nightfall(~) % python -c "foo = []; foo[3] = 234"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in ?
  IndexError: list assignment index out of range
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This is completely unacceptable.

Sure, I can use list comprehensions to make an N element array that's empty:
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foo = [None for x in range(100)]
foo[44] = "Hi"
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That only gets me an array with 100 empty elements. Uh.. Not what I want. If I
did this on an array with data in it I didn't want to lose, I'd lose all the
data.

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Sigh...