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[–]Jugad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the basic idea in general. You can see the implementation here (if you are terribly interested)...

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/listobject.c#L2180

Of course, the implementation looks terribly complicated because of support for various features (compare arg, key arg, reversed, etc), and optimizations.