Most efficient way to "pre-grow" a list?

[Ivan Illarionov]

On Nov 6, 3:12 pm, kj <no.em... at please.post> wrote:
> The best I can come up with is this:
>
> arr = [None] * 1000000
>
> Is this the most efficient way to achieve this result?

It is the most efficient SAFE way to achieve this result.

In fact, there IS the more efficient way, but it's dangerous, unsafe,
unpythonic and plain evil:
>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.pythonapi.PyList_New.restype = ctypes.py_object
>>> ctypes.pythonapi.PyList_New(100)


-- Ivan