operation complexities of lists and dictionaries

[Ben Finney]

"xarnaudx at gmail.com" <xarnaudx at gmail.com> writes:

> what are the time complexities of inserting / removing / checking if an
> element is present in 1) a list and 2) a dictionary?

Partly dependent on the implementation, of which there are several for
Python (CPython, Jython, PyPy, and others). Which one are you most
interested in?

> does anybody know?

The 'timeit' module can help you discover the answers for yourself, on
your current implementation.

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