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Then why does the article incorrectly claim that Python doesn't support arrays? The whole point of my comment is that I went away from the article still not kn

• deathanatos 8y ago
  The article is not even wrong. That first yellow highlight is … ugh. If a programmer from another language asks for an array, I'm going to point them at the `list` class in Python. As some other sub-comments under your original post note, some uses of an array want the actual data to be contiguous. But Python `list`'s values are references to other values, not the direct values themselves. If you're familiar w/ C, it's closer to an array of pointers to objects. That matters for some niche cases. But in basic tutorial? No. And Python has some built-in types to account for some of the niche cases. Sure, that pointer is not free, and the overhead of a Python object is not free, but Python is a high level scripting language, and generally, `list` provides a random-access ordered collection, which is what most people want when they say "array", and the overhead doesn't matter for many things.
• bizmuthrocks 8y ago
  Why are you being so insufferably dense? Are you always like this?