[reportlab-users] Setting Paragraphs as individual elements in a data table

[Funke, Matt]

I've populated matrices for a data table and a style table that I want to pass on to reportlab.platypus.tables.Table().  Here are the matrices as they currently exist:

headerStyleData:
[('BOX', (0, 0), (0, 2), 0.5, (0, 0, 0)),
 ('SPAN', (0, 0), (0, 2)),
 ('VALIGN', (0, 0), (1, 2), u'TOP'),
 ('ALIGN', (0, 0), (1, 2), u'CENTER')]

headerTableData:
[[[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], ''],
 [[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], ''],
 [[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], '']]

However, when I issue this command:

headerTableData[0][1] = 'd'

... and then look at the contents of headerTableData, I get this:

[[[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], 'd'],
 [[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], 'd'],
 [[<reportlab.platypus.flowables.Image instance at 0x0325B580>], 'd']]

Why is this?  Shouldn't only the top-left corner of the matrix be set to 'd'?  Is there a way I can keep from duplicating this data in every row in the column 1?  (Does it have something to do with how I set SPAN in column 0?)

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Matt Funke
Programmer/Analyst
Vishay Precision Group, Inc.
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