Christian Heimes added the comment: Antoine, on Unix you can restrict the address space of a program to test the issue without almost crashing and OOMing your box. ;)
>>> import resource >>> resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS, (1024*1024*100, 1024*1024*100)) >>> l = [b''] * (100*1024*70) >>> d = b''.join(l) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> MemoryError I wonder why I don't see a memory error in Python 3.3 or earlier. Any idea? ---------- nosy: +christian.heimes resolution: -> fixed status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16592> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
