In article <[email protected]>,
 Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alternatively, if you expect to fill in most of the elements, it's
> possible you'd be happier working with a subclass of list that
> auto-expands by filling in the spare space with a singleton meaning
> "no element here".

And, if you know ahead of time the maximum number of elements you will 
ever have:

x = [None] * max_count

will preallocate them all with a minimum of fuss.
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