On Feb 4, 7:41 am, "Ruan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then how about Python's list? > > What is done exactly when list.append is executed? > > For list, is there another larger list initialized and the contents from the > old list is copied to it together with the new appended list? >
Qi ren you tian :-) Llike with dictionaries, some spare space is left each time the list is expanded, so over-all the amortised cost is O(n). HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
