[Python-ideas] More details in MemoryError (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 22:32:20 CET 2013

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:04:15 +1100 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > Something like this could be used to decide whether or not to flush > unimportant in-memory caches, compact data structures, etc., or just > give up and exit.

That's a nice idea, but unless the requested allocation was fairly large, there's a good chance you don't have room to allocate anything more. I wouldn't be surprised if most cases of MemoryErrors were on fairly large allocation requests ;-)

Depends on the workflow. Something that allocates an immediate block of memory, yes, but if you're progressively building a complex structure, individual allocations mightn't themselves be significant.

ChrisA

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