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Expand Up @@ -1131,6 +1131,9 @@ Lists are mutable sequences, typically used to store collections of
homogeneous items (where the precise degree of similarity will vary by
application).

Despite their name, lists are more akin to arrays in other languages than to

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“despite their name” seems redundant.
“List” is datastructure independent, abstract word.
For example, C# uses IList and ArrayList for sequence (indexable). And LinkedList for linked list.

linked lists, since their elements are accessed with time complexity O(1).

.. class:: list([iterable])

Lists may be constructed in several ways:
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