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Since there isn't any traversal when looking up an element n, I guess the best "short hand" would be to call it an array - it's an array of pointers to objects on the heap.

https://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-list-implementation...

As for collections within collections, python allows for that in "lists" (arrays) and "dictionaries" (maps).



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