> Always crashing because I asked the OS to please not allow a process > to grow too big is what I call overloading the meaning of ulimit -s.
Please trust that there is no explicit code in the Python interpreter that tests whether the stack size is 4GB, and then produces an explicit crash. > It's quite surprising. Not to mention the poor error message. AFAICT, you didn't even *report* yet what the error message is, so I don't know whether it is poor. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list