maximum length of a list & tuple

[Terry Reedy]

"Lupe" <luis_ at iname.com> wrote in message
news:c55okv$2o3eql$1 at ID-202776.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I just would like to know if there is any limit to a list or tuple.

Theoretically no, practically yes.  For computer implementations, one limit
is max int (usually 2billion+).  The other, which usually kicks in first,
is RAM memory.

If you nest v e r y deeply, you may also run into a compiler limit or stack
overflow.  As an experiment, I tried

t=()
for i in range(100000): t = (t,) # runs fine

print t
...
MemoryError: stack overflow

Feel free to experiment on your own system.

Terry J. Reedy