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[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:10:10 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> pisze:

> Python lists are tail-preallocated vectors. Therefore, adding to the
> end of a list occurs in (close to*) amortized constant time.
> 
> (*) note that while this statement isn't strictly true, it's as
> true as it needs to be. :)

It used to be not strictly true, but it's true in Python 2.1a.

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