> a list is a list [...] these are well defined computer science terms "list" is a CS term? I know that "(doubly|singly) linked list" is a CS term, but have ne

> a list is a list [...] these are well defined computer science terms "list" is a CS term? I know that "(doubly|singly) linked list" is a CS term, but have never heard anyone mention list by itself (unless context made it obvious that they mean "linked list" - but then I've also seen people use the word "list" when the context made it obvious that they underlying data structure was an array) tl;dr: Python "lists" are not "linked lists". But nobody said they were.