sys.version --> '2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 21 2009, 02:16:04) \n[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] I thought this script would be very lean and fast, but with a large value for n (like 150000), it uses 26G of virtural memory, and things start to crumble.
#!/usr/bin/env python '''write a file of random integers. args are: file-name how-many''' import sys, random f = open(sys.argv[1], 'w') n = int(sys.argv[2]) for i in xrange(n): print >>f, random.randint(0, sys.maxint) f.close() What's using so much memory? What would be a better way to do this? (aside from checking arg values and types, I know...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list