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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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