[Tutor] Alternatives to append() for "growing" a list

[Amit Saha]

Hello,

I was told by someone (as a comment) that a code snippet such as this
"would make Pythonistas talk my ear off about how evil the append()"
function is:

>>> mylist = []
>>> mylist.append(1)
# a number of times over

I have some ideas that on an append() the list's internal size
increases (doubled?) since CPython over-allocates memory, and such.

So, the question is: what is the alternative to growing a list when I
have no idea what items or how many may be there?


Thanks,
Amit.

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