How many can a tuple or list contain in Python?

Question

How many items can contain tuple or list in python? What will be if it is 10 000?

Answer 1

import sys

print sys.maxsize
# prints some system-dependent number representing the maximum
# size most containers can hold.

Python sys module

I suspect on most platforms, sys.maxsize would return the same value as sys.maxint (which is guaranteed to be at least 2**31-1), but I doubt that's guaranteed.