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What do you mean by that it is a "list"? It's certainly not a linked list.

An array by definition is fixed length and contiguous in memory. A list is variable length and not necessarily contiguous in memory.

List is pretty much an interface, and Python lists do support things you expect from a List type, but not from an Array (e.g. inserting/removing things at random positions). The interface doesn't say if it's an array, a linked list, a rope, ... underneath, and you don't need to care at this point.

This is wrong, the Python list supports random access and random access inserts and removals. It's a dynamic size array underneath, and contiguous, so it's pretty much the same as a std::vector of Python objects.

Also notably a Python list does NOT have an efficent pop operation at both ends, only on the far end.

Doc: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list

None of what you say seems to contradict what I said, so what exactly in my comment is wrong?

I read that the list:

> but not from an Array (e.g. inserting/removing things at random positions)

But it does support those operations

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