The important characteristics of Python lists are as follows: Lists are ordered. Lists can contain any arbitrary objects. List elements can be accessed by index.

Is Python list automatically ordered?

The standard Python list is not sorted in any form.

Why Python list is ordered?

If we look at the output for strings, lists and tuples, they are in same order as they are specified intially. And these data structures guarantee this order. So strings, lists and tuples are ordered collections of objects. ... So sets and dictionaries are unordered collections of objects.