I'm trying to make a 2D list where all the items are copies of the same list. The following code just prints &quot;0&quot; five times, but I need a unique index for each item. my_list = [] list_of_lists = []  for i in range(0, 5):     my_list.append(i)  for i in range(0, 5):     list_of_lists.append(my_list)  for l in list_of_lists:     print(list_of_lists.index(l))  I get the same results when I append my_list.copy() instead of my_list. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I needed to create a list of lists in Python, so I typed the following: my_list = [[1] * 4] * 3  The list looked like this: [[1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1]]    Then I changed one of the innermost values: my_list[0][0] = 5  Now my list looks like this: [[5, 1, 1, 1], [5, 1, 1, 1], [5, 1, 1, 1]]    which is not what I wanted or expected. Can someone please explain what's going on, and how to get around it?
Can blender use the Alpha channel of an image as transparency on a plane? I'm experiencing a strange problem with Outlook 2019. When viewing a message it only shows the first line. On an HTML message, it stops at the first close paragraph tag. On a plaintext message, it stops at the first newline character. This is true if viewing a message in the reading pane as well as if double-clicking the message to open in its own window. I have the preview pane set to show 3 lines and it does show more of the message so it seems like Outlook can see more of the message than it's rendering in the reading pane. If I use View Source, the underlying data seems fine and the whole message is there. I've tried the following:  Deleting and re-creating the user's mail profile Uninstalling &amp; re-installing Office Creating a new Windows account &amp; connecting Outlook to a different Exchange account than the one that originally exhibited the problem Checked for Windows updates Checked for Office updates  Any ideas what might be causing this? I feel like I've tried everything obvious &amp; I'm striking out on Google. Can you grab the blue shirts and socks?   Is the above sentence stating that both the shirts and the socks are blue? Or only the shirts?  At this stage, I am leaning towards the earlier (only the shirts) — though writing "Can you grab the blue shirts and blue socks?" seems redundant. How to vertically align underbraces I am trying to balance underbraces in the equation below, how can I ensure that both underbraces at the same depth?  \begin{equation} y = \underbrace{ \left [ x^2 + r^2 (a^2+\frac{a^{0.3}}{b}) \right]}_\text{growth rate} \times  \underbrace{ C_0}_\text{initial} \end{equation} Opening the menu and selecting an item from the "Favorite Sites" menu allows us to see a feed for a specific site. In the top right corner of this page is a drop-down which allows us to select the "sort order" for the posts. The default is "Active" with other options like "Newest", "Hot", etc.  The problem is that when I select "Newest" or any other option. This preference is not remembered when I change between a different "Favorite Site".  So I am requesting that the selection is persisted when changing between site feeds. I have no preference whether this is implemented per site (to allow a different default for each site) or just one single preferred default that works on all sites (last option selected). I just want it to remember that I have selected "Newest" when I am flicking though the sites. How to show that $\int_{0}^{\pi}{\sin^5 x\over 1+\cos^3 x}\mathrm dx=\ln 3?$ Given the integral $(1)$     $$\int_{0}^{\pi}{\sin^5 x\over 1+\cos^3 x}\mathrm dx=\ln 3\tag1$$   This integral seems to be quite tough, I can't even know where to start. I have try substitution $u=1+\cos^3 x$ and $u=\cos^3 x$, can seem to remove the x variables.  We have the following identities   $$\sin^5a={5\over 8}\sin a-{5\over 16}\sin 3a+{1\over 16}\sin 5a\tag2$$  $$\cos^3 a={3\over 4}\cos a+{1\over 4}\cos 3a\tag3$$  We may write $(1)$ as  $$\int_{0}^{\pi}{\sin x(1-\cos^2 x)^2\over 1+\cos x(1-\sin ^2 x)}\mathrm dx\tag4$$  $u=1-\sin^2 x\implies \mathrm du=-2\sin x\cos x\mathrm dx$ then $(4)$ becomes  $${1\over 2}\int_{0}^{1}{(1-u)^2\over \sqrt{u}+u^2}\mathrm du\tag5$$  $u=v^2\implies du=2vdv$ then $(5)$ becomes  $$\int_{0}^{1}{(1-v^2)^2\over v+v^4}\cdot{v\mathrm dv}\tag6$$ Simplify to  $$\int_{0}^{1}{(1-v)(1-v^2)\over 1-v+v^2}\mathrm dv\tag7$$  I guess using partial decomposition of fraction and integrate term by term, seem lengthy process  How else can we prove $(1)$? Show that $\lim_{n\to\infty} \sqrt[n]{a^{n} + b^{n}} = \max(a, b)$ Prove that:  $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \sqrt[n]{a^{n} + b^{n}} = \max(a, b)$$  I don't have a clue even how to start the proof here. Any hint is appreciated! In my D&amp;D 5e campaign one of the PCs who's a wood elf started dating a dark elf, and as a result she got pregnant and she is about to give birth. One of the other players had their PC die and he is considering playing as the child of the couple.  My question is, which race is the child going to be? Draft watermark image just in a \section Is it possible to have a draft watermark only in a \section?  EDIT:  I have in a document more then one \section, and I need the draftwatermark just in some \section. Unfortunately the section with and without the draftwatermark share the page. For example I want the draftwatermark under the text of just one of these sections A,B,C  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{kantlipsum} % supply mock text  \begin{document}  \section{A}  \kant[2]  \section{B}  \kant[2-4]  \section{C}  \kant[2]  \end{document} I am doing , and am having a few problems with function notation. I understand the form f(x).  What does the form f: x ↦ y mean? Could you also give one or two examples?  And, if possible, state your source. Thank you. Why does demand for stock rise when a company appears to have high future value? So a company decides to raise money by selling shares of its stock. The stock is offered at an initial price of their determination. The stock is then traded in a market where forces of supply and demand, as well as speculation, affect its price.  When a company performs well (or makes decisions that will likely increase the company's earnings in the future), more people want to buy that stock than do people wanting to sell it. This creates demand for that stock which causes its sell/bid prices rise. When a company performs poorly, the opposite occurs; more people want to sell the stock than want to buy. This creates a surplus that causes sell/bid prices to fall.  Understanding this, people speculate over company performance to determine the future behavior of a stock, and attempt to "buy low, sell high" or "borrow high, return low" in order to make a profit.  But my question is regarding the first part of that process. What is it about company performance that causes the perceived value of its stock to rise? This is especially perplexing since I would guess that most people don't exercise their voting rights, and many stocks don't pay dividends.  It's not like a shareholder has any direct financial gains from increased company earnings (speculative stock pricing notwithstanding).  What is the intrinsic value of the stock?  It seems to me that all participants in a stock market tacitly agree that stock price will have a direct correlation with company performance. So another way of asking the question is, would an opposite agreement hold? What financially (this isn't a question about logistics, communication, or feasibility) stops all participants in a market from agreeing to value a particular company's stock inversely with respect to the company's performance?  Since I feel like I can't quite nail down my question, another form of it would be, why is stock market behavior driven by company performance? We all know very well how to make an angle of 15 and 45 degree and its multiple using compass. Can anybody tell me how to make an angle of 10 degree and its multiple using compass? I've a Skype interview for PhD application (it will make me miss  today.) I've been asked, in advance, to prepare a short presentation and then there would be some discussion with the panel (I guess.) I expect that they will ask if I have some questions so, I'm wondering what are the best (type of) questions one might consider? Converting Degree Minutes to decimal degrees using Excel formula? I have location points collected from a garmin device stored in an excel sheet in Degree Minutes format --- W00208.172,N1046.977.  I am looking for an Excel formula to convert either to Decimal Degrees or Degrees Minutes seconds Format ? Why does QgsSpatialIndex.nearestNeighbor(point, 1) sometimes return 2 lines? I'm trying to get the closest line to a point using PyQGIS in a plugin. The active code file is this:   When I request the closest line (only 1)  nearestIds = self.spIndex.nearestNeighbor(self.feat2.geometry().centroid().asPoint(),1)   I sometimes get a list with two lines and the first one is not the closest but as far as I can see the second one is. Why is this?   Does QgsSpatialIndex use only boundingboxes for lines? How do I get the real closest line always, not only most of the time? Representative point of a cluster with L1 distance The representative point of a cluster or cluster center for the k-means algorithm is the component-wise mean of the points in its cluster. The mean is chosen because it helps to minimize the within cluster variances (which is to say that it is minimizing within cluster squared Euclidean distance, since its the same). Now, when I want to use a different distance metric, like L1 (Manhattan distance), I would be minimizing the within cluster absolute deviations (if I choose to). I was looking at what the centers calculation would be like, because the mean won't reduce the new objective function, and I found this on the Matlab documentation of their kmeans function for the distance parameter     cityblock - Sum of absolute differences, i.e., the L1 distance. Each centroid is the component-wise median of the points in that cluster.   Now, how did they come up with the component-wise median? How does a median minimize absolute deviations? mysqli or PDO - what are the pros and cons? $\gcd(a,b)=1, x^a = y^b\Rightarrow x = n^b$, $ y = n^a$ for an integer $n$. If $ a$, $ b$, $ x$, $ y$ are integers greater than $1$ such that $ a$ and $ b$ have no common factor except $1$ and $ x^a = y^b$ show that $ x = n^b$, $ y = n^a$ for some integer $ n$ greater than $1$.  I started this way: $x^a=y^b$ $=&gt;$ $x=y^{b/a}=(y^{1/a})^b$. Thus $x$ is an integer, and so is $y^{1/a}$, so $y=n^a$ for some integer $n$ greater than $1$. Then from the given relation, we get $x=n^b$.   I am not very convinced with my solution, as I feel I did some mistake. Can anyone point out where the mistake is? Any other solution is also welcome :) What is the origin of "man on the spot"? What is the origin of "man on the spot" ?   defines on the spot and uses as an example man on the spot.     on the spot -  at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the   spot" (Emphasis added)   Some evidence suggests that the origin of the phrase refers to decisions made by officials of the past British empire and actions taken by them. Does it make any difference for SEO benefits to buy dropped and already available domains other than backorder domains that are expiring soon?  I heard somewhere that whois gets deleted after being dropped. But I didn't find any confirmation if it's true or not.  Anybody can tell me if there are benefits of one against the other, if yes what?