Operations Difference in Lists and Arrays
Accessing element is fast in Python Arrays because they are in a contiguous manner but insertion and deletion is quite expensive because all the elements are shifted from the position of inserting and deleting element linearly. Suppose the array is of 1000 length and we are inserting/deleting elements at 100 position then all the elements after the hundred position will get shifted due to which the operation becomes expensive.
Accessing an element in a Python List is the same as an Array because a List is actually a dynamic array . Inserting or deleting elements at the beginning or in the middle of a list can be less efficient because it may require shifting all subsequent elements, which is a linear-time operation in the worst case.
Difference between List and Array in Python
In Python, lists and arrays are the data structures that are used to store multiple items. They both support the indexing of elements to access them, slicing, and iterating over the elements. In this article, we will see the difference between the two.
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