Create a 2 dimensional array according to an existing array

A simple comprehension will do:

array = [2, 3, 1, 3, 1]

zeroes = [[0] * x for x in array]
# [[0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0], [0, 0, 0], [0]]

you could do something like this :

[[0 for x in range(y)] for y in [2,3,1,3,1]]

You could do it like this:-

c = [2, 3, 1, 3, 1]
RA = []
for v in c:
    RA.append([0 for _ in range(v)])
print(RA)

There's probably a more compact way of doing this but this should make it clear what you need to do