#list in python

Etymology Noun. From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly…

Memory

When we have an list of int’s as shown below

L = [35, 4, 5, 29, 17, 58, 0]

The access to this list is always constant time, for a simple reason being the size of int is constant for a platform and a programming language.

To see how this constant time access works, lets consider ints occupy 4 units of memory, this units can be 8 bits, 16 bits. So how to access the ith element of the list…

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List in Python