Lists differ from strings in two ways; one way is that it's mutable, the other way is that the values need not be characters. They can be numbers, they can be characters, they can be strings they can even be other lists.

有两个不同之处，一个在于数组是可变的;,另一点在于数组里面的值，不一定是字符,可以是数，可以是字符,也可以是字符串,甚至可以是其他的数组。

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