List (or set) of matrices

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To complete ppurka's answer, here is your code with corrections:

def ListM(p): 
    UT=[]
    for i1 in range(p): 
       for i2 in range(p): 
          for i3 in range(p):
             for i4 in range(p):
                UT=UT+[matrix([[i1,i2],[i3,i4]])]
    return UT

Note that output of ListM(3) looks ugly, but this is a formatting "bug" when you display such a list, output is correct.

Python has very nice syntax for "list comprehensions", you may write:

def rows(p):
    return [[x,y] for x in range(p) for y in range(p)]
def ListM(p): 
    return [matrix([r1,r2]) for r1 in rows(p) for r2 in rows(p)]

Of course in this case using MatrixSpace(GF(p),2,2) is definitely the right solution. Good luck with Sage !

You should mention what error you got. For creating all the 2x2 matrices over some finite field use the MatrixSpace class.

sage: M = MatrixSpace(GF(3), 2, 2)
sage: M
Full MatrixSpace of 2 by 2 dense matrices over Finite Field of size 3
sage: Mlist = M.list() # List containing all the matrices
sage: len(Mlist)
81

As for your function, it is also not correct, unless you have copy-pasted incorrectly.

1. First, the indentation in the function is wrong.
2. Secondly, you need not define UT to be a symbolic variable because you are redefining UT to be a list.
3. Thirdly, you are not returning anything from the function, so I don't know whether your function is incomplete, or this is what you intended.