On Mar 17, 1:49 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I doubt that. AFAIK both arrays and lists are continuous memory-areas, > that double (at least to a certain threshold or so) when reaching the > capacity limit.
For what it's worth, lists over-allocate by ~1/8, and arrays by ~1/16. (Details in listobject.c:list_resize and arraymodule.c:array_resize.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
