Question

How would the following be translated, its an array in perl, I thought that I could translate into python as a list. I am trying to create a program that takes the 2-dimensional shape and basic DNA origami info, and supplies the nodes, the cost, and the range of each DNA strand and also adding a bufferzone and the cleanup zone. When the program receives the information, then it transfers the desired 2-d DNA shape to a three-dimensional DNA origami.

In Perl:

@xCoords = ();
@yCoords = ();
@zCoords = ();

In Python, what i thought was right?

array(xCoords) = [] 
array(yCoords) = []
array(zCoords) = []

Answer 1

Base Array:

1. xCoords = []
   yCoords = []
   zCoords = []
   

Multidimensional Array:

1. xCoords = [[]];
   yCoords = [[]];
   zCoords = [[]];
   

2. xCoords = []
   yCoords = []
   zCoords = []
   xCoords.append([])
   yCoords.append([])
   zCoords.append([])
   

3. Credit here
   Example to declare and populate two dimensional array

   xCoords = [[]*n for x in xrange(n)]
   yCoords = [[]*n for x in xrange(n)]
   zCoords = [[]*n for x in xrange(n)]