Creating a list in Python- something sneaky going on?
- by GlenCrawford
Apologies if this doesn't make any sense, I'm very new to Python!
From testing in an interpreter, I can see that list() and [] both produce an empty list:
>>> list()
[]
>>> []
[]
From what I've learned so far, the only way to create an object is to call its constructor (__init__), but I don't see this happening when I just type []. So by executing [], is Python then mapping that to a call to list()?