python中θ是哪种0,[0] * x语法在Python中做什么？

A flash question, I'm looking at the following code

from __future__ import division

import math

import time

def dft(x, inverse = False, verbose = False) :

t = time.clock()

N = len(x)

inv = -1 if not inverse else 1

X =[0] * N

for k in xrange(N) :

for n in xrange(N) :

X[k] += x[n] * math.e**(inv * 2j * math.pi * k * n / N)

if inverse :

X[k] /= N

t = time.clock() - t

if verbose :

print "Computed","an inverse" if inverse else "a","DFT of size",N,

print "in",t,"sec."

return X

and I'm wondering (I do not know python):

what does the X =[0] * N line do?

why the double asterisk ** ?

解决方案

The x = [0] * n is demonstrated here:

>>> [0]*10

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

It 'multiplies' the list elements

>>> [1, 2, 3] * 3

[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]

The ** is the power operator

>>> 3**2

9

Although be careful, it can also be **kwargs (in a different context), see more about that here Proper way to use **kwargs in Python