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It does slow down like you claimed. (0.03 seconds for the first iteration, and 0.84 seconds for the last… quite a difference.) Obviously, if you instantiate a list but don't append it to x , it runs way faster and doesn't scale up over time.
extend to extend the list by multiple values from any kind of iterable, being it another list or any other thing that provides a sequence of values. So you can use list. append() to append a single value, and list. extend() to append multiple values.
You can append a list in for loop, Use the list append() method to append elements to a list while iterating over the given list.
I have a project where I am reading in ASCII values from a microcontroller through a serial port (looks like this : AA FF BA 11 43 CF etc) The input is coming in quickly (38 two character sets / second). I'm taking this input and appending it to a running list of all measurements.
After about 5 hours, my list has grown to ~ 855000 entries.
I'm given to understand that the larger a list becomes, the slower list operations become. My intent is to have this test run for 24 hours, which should yield around 3M results.
Is there a more efficient, faster way to append to a list then list.append()?
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