[Python-checkins] bpo-33888: Use CPython instead of Python in the FAQ (GH-7767)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b7874c809cbead0eb07554b61efe7823238c8bd9
commit: b7874c809cbead0eb07554b61efe7823238c8bd9
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-07-07T16:50:33-07:00
summary:
bpo-33888: Use CPython instead of Python in the FAQ (GH-7767)
Make the change where discussing the CPython implementation of lists and dicts.
(cherry picked from commit 8d41278045ee4e8bf1cadb58a7db58d70ad55237)
Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino <adelfino at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/faq/design.rst
diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index dae0737628fe..bb20f04c5554 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -470,10 +470,10 @@ you can always change a list's elements. Only immutable elements can be used as
dictionary keys, and hence only tuples and not lists can be used as keys.
-How are lists implemented?
---------------------------
+How are lists implemented in CPython?
+-------------------------------------
-Python's lists are really variable-length arrays, not Lisp-style linked lists.
+CPython's lists are really variable-length arrays, not Lisp-style linked lists.
The implementation uses a contiguous array of references to other objects, and
keeps a pointer to this array and the array's length in a list head structure.
@@ -486,10 +486,10 @@ when the array must be grown, some extra space is allocated so the next few
times don't require an actual resize.
-How are dictionaries implemented?
----------------------------------
+How are dictionaries implemented in CPython?
+--------------------------------------------
-Python's dictionaries are implemented as resizable hash tables. Compared to
+CPython's dictionaries are implemented as resizable hash tables. Compared to
B-trees, this gives better performance for lookup (the most common operation by
far) under most circumstances, and the implementation is simpler.
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