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authorAndrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>2018-07-07 23:25:47 (GMT)
committerTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2018-07-07 23:25:47 (GMT)
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bpo-33888: Use CPython instead of Python in the FAQ (GH-7767)
Make the change where discussing the CPython implementation of lists and dicts.
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@@ -470,10 +470,10 @@ you can always change a list's elements. Only immutable elements can be used as
dictionary keys, and hence only tuples and not lists can be used as keys.
-How are lists implemented?
---------------------------
+How are lists implemented in CPython?
+-------------------------------------
-Python's lists are really variable-length arrays, not Lisp-style linked lists.
+CPython's lists are really variable-length arrays, not Lisp-style linked lists.
The implementation uses a contiguous array of references to other objects, and
keeps a pointer to this array and the array's length in a list head structure.
@@ -486,10 +486,10 @@ when the array must be grown, some extra space is allocated so the next few
times don't require an actual resize.
-How are dictionaries implemented?
----------------------------------
+How are dictionaries implemented in CPython?
+--------------------------------------------
-Python's dictionaries are implemented as resizable hash tables. Compared to
+CPython's dictionaries are implemented as resizable hash tables. Compared to
B-trees, this gives better performance for lookup (the most common operation by
far) under most circumstances, and the implementation is simpler.