On approximately 1/26/2010 7:50 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Cameron Simpson:
My point was that I look on python builtins like list and dict as highly
optimised, highly efficient facilities. That means that I expect a "list"
to be very very much like a linear array as one would find in C-like
languages, with realloc() managment behind the scenes to handle the
resizing requirements on append/extend.
As a newcomer to python, I must say that I wouldn't expect a list to be
like an array. I'd expect it more to be like a list... many
implementations of lists (linked lists, in particular) make it O(1) to
add to the front or back. An array can be used to represent a list, but
there are known inefficiencies that result when doing so, one of which
the Subject patch is working to address. I guess I would have expected
something called an array to be more like an array, rather than
something called a list. But one has to read the documentation to find
out what things really mean, in a new environment.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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