Python Notes: Lists vs. Arrays You can file this post under “if Rhett doesn’t write it down, he will forget”. I guess you are thinking that I am a python expert.

Arrays in Python give you a huge amount of flexibility for storing, organizing, and accessing data. This is crucial, not least because of Python’s popularity for use in data science.

The Python array is designed to emulate the behavior of an array in C, and it’s meant chiefly to allow Python to work with C arrays. The array type is useful in those cases, but in almost every ...