The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

[Courageous]

> I note that C++ does allow pre-allocation, but not access to the
> rescale value.

I think that's because it's been proven somewhere that
doubling the size of the vector is what you want to do
or some such (a coworker of mine recently mentioned some
formulas which show that vector append truly is O(1)
amortized time for advance allocate vectors that have
this behavior). Didn't quite know what he was referring
to, though.



C/