Charles-François Natali added the comment:

> And your test.py produces the same result. Are you sure you don't have a 
> ulimit set on address space?

Yep, I'm sure:
$  ulimit -v
unlimited

It's probably due to the exponential over-allocation used by the array
(to guarantee amortized constant cost).

How about:
python -c "b = bytes('x' * <large>)"

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