On a few occasions I wished that Python by default limited the max length of its lists to, say, 100 million elements to avoid bad bugs that consume memory and t

On a few occasions I wished that Python by default limited the max length of its lists to, say, 100 million elements to avoid bad bugs that consume memory and trigger swapping for few minutes before been killed by OOM. Allocating such amount of memory as plain Python list, not a specialized data structure like numpy array, is way more likely indicate a bug then a real need.