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I am truly a novice in Python. Now, I am doing a project which involves creating a list of 2D coordinates. The coordinates should be uniformly placed, using a square grid (10*10), like(0,0)(0,1)(0,2)(0,3)...(0,10)(1,0)(1,2)(1,3)...(2,0)(2,1)(2,2)...(10,10).

Here is my code:

coordinate = []
x = 0
y = 0
while y < 10:
    while x < 10:
        coordinate.append((x,y))
        x += 1
    coordinate.append((x,y))
    y += 1
print(coordinate)

But I can only get: [(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 0), (4, 0), (5, 0), (6, 0), (7, 0), (8, 0), (9, 0), (10, 0), (10, 1), (10, 2), (10, 3), (10, 4), (10, 5), (10, 6), (10, 7), (10, 8), (10, 9)]

How can I rewrite my code to get all the points?

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  • for future reference to anybody stumbling across this, his problem stemmed from not resetting x = 0 at the start of the loop! Commented Mar 2, 2015 at 17:33

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Reset to default
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It's common to use a couple of for-loops to achieve this:

coordinates = []

for x in range(11):
  for y in range(11):
    coordinates.append((x, y))

It's also common to simplify this by flattening it into a list comprehension:

coordinates = [(x,y) for x in range(11) for y in range(11)]
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The problem with this approach is that coordinates[j] refers to the j-th coordinate -- not the j-th coordinate tuple: e.g. coordinates[11] is (1,0) instead of (10, 10).
Here is a solution that uses a class to define coordinate pairs as points: stackoverflow.com/questions/12468900/… .
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To actually answer your question, you forgot to reset x back to zero after the first run through x=0..9:

coordinate = []

y = 0
while y < 10:
    x = 0
    while x < 10:
        coordinate.append((x,y))
        x += 1
    coordinate.append((x,y))
    y += 1
print(coordinate)

Feel free to use all other variants, of course.

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Great!!! It works! Thank you so much. But I have another question: how can I make my screen output without comma and parenthesis? like 0 0;0 1;0 2, etc
You'll have to loop over coordinate and format your output yourself. Start by reading up on for loops, try printing each pair individually. Post another question if you encounter problems.
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from itertools import product

x = (0, 1, 2)

test = product(x, x)

Result:

>>> for ele in test:
...     print ele
... 
(0, 0)
(0, 1)
(0, 2)
(1, 0)
(1, 1)
(1, 2)
(2, 0)
(2, 1)
(2, 2)

Note that test is a generator, so you probably would want to use list(test).

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Use itertools.product:

>>> from itertools import product
>>> list(product(range(11), repeat=2))
[(0, 0), (0, 1), (0, 2), (0, 3), (0, 4), (0, 5), (0, 6), (0, 7), (0, 8), (0, 9), (0, 10), (1, 0), (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (1, 5), (1, 6), (1, 7), (1, 8), (1, 9), (1, 10), (2, 0), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (2, 7), (2, 8), (2, 9), (2, 10), (3, 0), (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 4), (3, 5), (3, 6), (3, 7), (3, 8), (3, 9), (3, 10), (4, 0), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (4, 7), (4, 8), (4, 9), (4, 10), (5, 0), (5, 1), (5, 2), (5, 3), (5, 4), (5, 5), (5, 6), (5, 7), (5, 8), (5, 9), (5, 10), (6, 0), (6, 1), (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6), (6, 7), (6, 8), (6, 9), (6, 10), (7, 0), (7, 1), (7, 2), (7, 3), (7, 4), (7, 5), (7, 6), (7, 7), (7, 8), (7, 9), (7, 10), (8, 0), (8, 1), (8, 2), (8, 3), (8, 4), (8, 5), (8, 6), (8, 7), (8, 8), (8, 9), (8, 10), (9, 0), (9, 1), (9, 2), (9, 3), (9, 4), (9, 5), (9, 6), (9, 7), (9, 8), (9, 9), (9, 10), (10, 0), (10, 1), (10, 2), (10, 3), (10, 4), (10, 5), (10, 6), (10, 7), (10, 8), (10, 9), (10, 10)]

The above code is equivalent to this nested list comprehension:

>>> [(x, y) for x in range(11) for y in range(11)]
[(0, 0), (0, 1), (0, 2), (0, 3), (0, 4), (0, 5), (0, 6), (0, 7), (0, 8), (0, 9), (0, 10), (1, 0), (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (1, 5), (1, 6), (1, 7), (1, 8), (1, 9), (1, 10), (2, 0), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (2, 7), (2, 8), (2, 9), (2, 10), (3, 0), (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 4), (3, 5), (3, 6), (3, 7), (3, 8), (3, 9), (3, 10), (4, 0), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (4, 7), (4, 8), (4, 9), (4, 10), (5, 0), (5, 1), (5, 2), (5, 3), (5, 4), (5, 5), (5, 6), (5, 7), (5, 8), (5, 9), (5, 10), (6, 0), (6, 1), (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6), (6, 7), (6, 8), (6, 9), (6, 10), (7, 0), (7, 1), (7, 2), (7, 3), (7, 4), (7, 5), (7, 6), (7, 7), (7, 8), (7, 9), (7, 10), (8, 0), (8, 1), (8, 2), (8, 3), (8, 4), (8, 5), (8, 6), (8, 7), (8, 8), (8, 9), (8, 10), (9, 0), (9, 1), (9, 2), (9, 3), (9, 4), (9, 5), (9, 6), (9, 7), (9, 8), (9, 9), (9, 10), (10, 0), (10, 1), (10, 2), (10, 3), (10, 4), (10, 5), (10, 6), (10, 7), (10, 8), (10, 9), (10, 10)]
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Use a for loop. It lets you iterate over things called "iterators". range is a built-in function which returns an iterator from its starting argument (first argument) inclusive. up to its ending argument (second argument) non-inclusive. Thus range(0,11) will return 0,1,2,...,10.

coordinate = []
for y in range(0, 11):
    for x in range(0, 11):
        coordinate.append((x,y))
print(coordinate)

For more information on for loops in Python, check out the official wiki page.

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Thanks for your reply. Also,how can I make my screen output without comma and parenthesis? like 0 0;0 1;0 2, not (0,0)(0,1)(0,2). Thanks

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