On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Franck Ditter <fra...@ditter.org> wrote: <snip> >> Do lists in Python 3 behave like ArrayList in Java (if the capacity >> is full, then the array grows by more than 1 element) ? > > I believe the behavior in CPython is that if the array is full, the > capacity is doubled, but I'm not certain, and that would be an > implementation detail in any case.
It's slightly more complex: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/096b31e0f8ea/Objects/listobject.c "The growth pattern is: 0, 4, 8, 16, 25, 35, 46, 58, 72, 88, …" -- list_resize() Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
