[Python-Dev] MemoryError... how much memory? (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Oct 28 00:00:32 CEST 2010

Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

> Isn't this usually when you do something like [None]*2**300? In that > case, wouldn't you know how much memory you're requesting? It could happen on any malloc. It depends on how much you have free.

It also depends on how much is being requested. The caller knows that amount, surely?

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