In article <4e6dc66e$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > mylist = [0]*12345678901234 > [...] > > Apart from "Then don't do that!", is there anything I can do to prevent > > this sort of thing in the future? Like instruct Python not to request more > > memory than my PC has? > > > For anyone who may care, I can report that ulimit under Linux will help with > this situation. > [...] > Does anyone else think it would be useful for Python's memory manager to > enforce user-settable limits? Not me. You've already discovered that ulimit does exactly what you want. Why would be gained by having Python duplicate this functionality? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
