Matrix indexing in Python

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I have been trying figure out what this part the code does can anyone explain it me from what i understand the list will be 3,2,1 and then it will print that 3 times but i do not understand what the t[i][i] does in the code the out put is 6 but i do not know how the answer is gotten however if the list were to be printed 4 times of 3 then i have an idea of how the 6 came about

T = [[3-i for i in range (3)] for j in range (3)]
s = 0
for i in range(3):
    s += T[i][i]
print(s)

Asked By: Danger Coc

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Answer 1

I just added some print statements to your code, now I think that you will find it clear what is happening:

from pprint import pprint

T = [[3-i for i in range (3)] for j in range (3)]
print("T matrix:")
pprint(T, width=15)
s = 0
for i in range(3):
    s += T[i][i]
    print("diagonal item:", T[i][i], "running sum:", s)
print("final sum:", s)

Remember to add print statements to your code when debugging, or use a debugger tool!

Output:

T matrix:
[[3, 2, 1],
 [3, 2, 1],
 [3, 2, 1]]
diagonal item: 3 running sum: 3
diagonal item: 2 running sum: 5
diagonal item: 1 running sum: 6
final sum: 6

Answered By: Caridorc

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