lists and sequences

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Oct 15 15:18:04 EDT 2002


Michal Vitecek wrote:

>  why ditto for alist.pop(0)? is it because there can be multiple
>  references to the same list/address?

No, because aList.pop(0) removes the first element and shifts the rest
down.  A list in Python is implemented as a vector, not a linked list.

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