Why does creating a list from a list make it larger?

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With a list literal, the VM creates the list with a set length. When passing a sequence to the list() constructor the elements are added one by one (via list.extend()) and as such the list is resized when appropriate. Since the resize operation overallocates in order to amortize the cost, the final list will usually be larger than the source list.

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