Is a list like an array in other programming languages?

Answer 1

not in everything.
you still access elements by index, can sort and loop through, but:
1) array is a collection of vars of the same type, while list can store different types, as many as you want
2) array has fixed length, list can be extended with new elements
there may be more differences, I can't remember all)

Answer 2

List are mutable, indexed collection of objects in Python