Stefan Krah added the comment: This is probably offtopic, but I think people who want reliable MemoryErrors can use limits, e.g. via djb's softlimit (daemontools):
$ softlimit -m 100000000 ./python Python 3.5.0a0 (default:462470859e57+, Apr 27 2014, 19:34:06) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [i for i in range(9999999)] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <listcomp> MemoryError ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
