Correction, the first sentence should read, "lists are just dictionaries keyed with integers."
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM, er <eroberer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him that > Python lists are just dictionaries with lists hashed by integers. Since he > said that someone else told him this, I piped up and said that I thought > that wasn't true. I looked at the source code for lists in python, and I > did not expressly remember seeing dictionaries. Unfortunately I am not > somewhere where I can easily look at the code right now (I'm logged into > Windows!), and I might not realize exactly what I'm looking at anyways, but > I'd like to extend an apology to the guy soon if I was wrong. So, can > anyone tell me if lists are really just dictionaries? Thanks! >
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