title: Creating a list in Python- something sneaky going on?
body: <p>Apologies if this doesn't make any sense, I'm very new to Python!</p>
  
  <p>From testing in an interpreter, I can see that <code>list()</code> and <code>[]</code> both produce an empty list:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; list()
  []
  &gt;&gt;&gt; []
  []
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From what I've learned so far, the only way to create an object is to call its constructor (<code>__init__</code>), but I don't see this happening when I just type <code>[]</code>. So by executing <code>[]</code>, is Python then mapping that to a call to <code>list()</code>?</p>