Question about `list.insert`

cool-RR ram.rachum at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 18:59:13 EST 2014


Hi,

I'm curious. If I append an item to a list from the left using `list.insert`, will Python always move the entire list one item to the right (which can be super-slow) or will it check first to see whether it can just allocate more memory to the left of the list and put the item there, saving a lot of resources?


Thanks,
Ram.



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