I want to take the zero matrix and assign entries to make a new matrix. I understand that the zero matrix is immutable and I need to make a copy, but copy() isn't working. Here is what I put in:
A = copy(matrix(3,3,0)) A[0][0]=1
and the error says vector is immutable; please change a copy instead (use copy())
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you!
Look at the documentation A.__getitem__? for the explanation. In short, A[0] returns the first row of the matrix which is an immutable vector. And A[0][0] returns the first entry of that vector.
If you want the first entry of the matrix directly, then use A[0,0]. In this case, you don't need to work with a copy and you can change the original matrix directly since the matrices are not immutable by default.
sage: A = matrix(3,3,0); A
[0 0 0]
[0 0 0]
[0 0 0]
sage: A.is_immutable()
False
sage: A[0,0] = 1; A
[1 0 0]
[0 0 0]
[0 0 0]
sage: A[0]
(1, 0, 0)
sage: A[0].is_immutable()
True
Asked: 2013-12-07 01:46:44 +0100
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I'll just add to ppurka's answer that `copy` *is* working, in case anyone was confused by that not being mentioned explicitly.