On 07/24/2010 03:48 PM, Brian Quinlan wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Thomas Jollans wrote: >>> "Support heterogeneous lists" ==> "Yes (array)" >> >> This is nonsense, and has always been. >> Python lists (not arrays) have always been heterogeneous. They store >> objects and don't care about the type. Python arrays (from the array >> module) are homogeneous, and limited to storing numerical data. Quite a >> different beast. > > He means that Python lists are implemented using arrays, not that the > Python "array" module provides the functionality.
Oh dear, and all this time I thought python lists where implemented as lists, without ever checking the code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
