I'm trying to write Matrix Addition function using Python.
Here is the code I've been trying, but it gives me a list index error and I cannot figure out why.
def matrixADD(A,B):
Z = []
#TODO
for i in range(0,len(A)):
for column in range(0, len(A)):
result = A[i][column] + B[i][column]
Z[i][column] = (result)
return Z
using the following lists:
A = [[2,4], [7,0], [6,3]]
B = [[3,1], [-1,8], [-3, 3]]
So in theory, A[0][0] + B[0][0] would equal 5, and I would want to add that value to position Z[0][0].
However I keep receiving the error: IndexError: list index out of range
解决方案
>>> A = [[2,4], [7,0], [6,3]]
>>> B = [[3,1], [-1,8], [-3, 3]]
>>> Z = [map(sum, zip(*t)) for t in zip(A, B)]
>>> Z
[[5, 5], [6, 8], [3, 6]]
As for how you could fix your current code:
Z = []
for i in range(len(A)):
row = []
for j in range(len(A[i])):
row.append(A[i][j] + B[i][j])
Z.append(row)
The important parts here being that you cannot just assign to Z[i][j] unless that row/column already exists, so you need to construct each inner list separately and append them to Z. Also the inner loop needs to end at the length of a row, so I changed range(len(A)) to range(len(A[i])).