Are those features still the same?

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Sat Jul 24 09:56:31 EDT 2010


Thomas Jollans wrote:

>> "Support heterogeneous lists" ==> "Yes (array)"
> 
> This is nonsense, and has always been.

I think you are misunderstanding that statement. Python's list stores its 
items in a continuous chunk of memory, a layout that is called array in 
common CS terminology as opposed to lists which are typically linked lists.

Peter




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