On Sep 17, 5:34 am, Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > I have subsequently seen that it is red herring in this context though, as it > is some memory problem - the crash comes during the list creation, and has > nothing to do with the min/max processing. One can demo it by simply trying > to create a big list at the interactive prompt, and after a while you get > the "Killed" message. > > a = range(100000000) does it for me on my machine.
Ah, I see. Yeah, that is rotten behavior in the sense that we don't have 128-bit machines with 200 terabytes of ram. :) Give it a few months, though Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
