I think of a list just as "a list". An ordered collection of anything. "Linked list" is not an abstraction (at least, not in Python), it's an implementation de

I think of a list just as "a list". An ordered collection of anything. "Linked list" is not an abstraction (at least, not in Python), it's an implementation detail. And IIRC, Python lists are not actually implemented as linked cells, so they have different performance characteristics.