A few questions

[Josiah Carlson]

Christopher Arndt wrote:
> I have a few quibles with your summary of Python's properties:
> On 21 Mai, 08:16, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
>> Memory management
>> is safe and managed by reference counts backed by a garbage collector.
>> Weak references are supported.  Built in data types are numerics, ASCII
>> and Unicode strings, dynamic arrays, fixed size tuples, and hashes.
> 
> Python lists are much more than arrays. More like a linked list.
> You forgot sets. And functions, classes, methods, instances.... (see
> above)

Python lists are implemented as C arrays that are resized as necessary.

  - Josiah