Why do two identical lists have a different memory footprint?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5152...

Answer 1 links:
[this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4001...
[docs]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dis.ht...
[source code]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4...

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