I am trying to create a simple board in a draw_board definition that will use size and several coordinates where I will place 1 character length characters in specified coordinates. I am in the beginning stages and want to just simply create the board itself using a 2d array.
This method below works when I change individual elements :
board = [['','','',''], ['','','',''], ['', '', '', ''], ['','','','']]
board[0][0] = 'a'
print(' 0 1 2 3')
print('0 ' + board[0][0] + ' ' + board[0][1] + ' ' + board[0][2] + ' ' + board[0][3])
print('1 ' + board[1][0] + ' ' + board[1][1] + ' ' + board[1][2] + ' ' + board[1][3])
print('2 ' + board[2][0] + ' ' + board[2][1] + ' ' + board[2][2] + ' ' + board[2][3])
print('3 ' + board[3][0] + ' ' + board[3][1] + ' ' + board[3][2] + ' ' + board[3][3])
However, I would not be able to change the size by just a variable and would need to edit the initialization of the board myself.
This method below is better and would work because I could easily change the size variable and get any size board I want...
size = 4
board = [['']*size]*size
board[0][0] = 'a'
print(' 0 1 2 3')
print('0 ' + board[0][0] + ' ' + board[0][1] + ' ' + board[0][2] + ' ' + board[0][3])
print('1 ' + board[1][0] + ' ' + board[1][1] + ' ' + board[1][2] + ' ' + board[1][3])
print('2 ' + board[2][0] + ' ' + board[2][1] + ' ' + board[2][2] + ' ' + board[2][3])
print('3 ' + board[3][0] + ' ' + board[3][1] + ' ' + board[3][2] + ' ' + board[3][3])
However, when I implement board[0][0] = 'a', it changes the entire column to 'a', which is not what I want. Any suggestions of how I could change this second method to make it work for just the desired coordinate?
