Slow with large output

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20128425/can-i-stop-the-repl-locking-up-when-using-emacs-and-python

If I'm using a python interpreter under EMACS, then I've got various ways of evaluating code, for instance just typing it in at the REPL (Inferior Python) If that code produces too much output, then EMACS freezes solid and has to be killed.

This will do it, for instance.

[[[False] * 200 for i in range(3)] for j in range(200)]

There's no problem at all if python's running in a terminal. It just prints out False 120000 times and gives me the prompt back.

Is there any way to either limit the amount of output the inferior python process produces, or to get EMACS not to explode when faced with large outputs?

In clojure, for example, I can use *print-length* and *print-level* to solve this exact same problem.