The list() constructor isn't taking full advantage of known input lengths or length hints.  Ideally, it should pre-size and not over-allocate when the input size is known or can be reasonably estimated.

Python 3.8.0a0 (heads/master:091e95e900, Apr  5 2018, 09:48:33)
[Clang 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.1)] on darwin
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>>> from sys import getsizeof
>>> getsizeof([0] * 10)
144
>>> getsizeof(list([0] * 10))
200
>>> getsizeof(list(range(10)))
200