On 5/11/2014 2:56 AM, Ross Gayler wrote:
Hi,
I want to install Python on a PC with 16GB of RAM and the 64 bit version
of Windows 7.
I want Python to be able to use as much as possible of the RAM.
When I install the 64 bit version of Python I find that sys.maxint ==
2**31 - 1
Since sys.maxint is gone in 3.x, you must be using some version of 2.x.
Do yourself a favor and install 3.4 unless you absolutely need 2.x.
With 3.4:
>>> a = [None]*1000000000
>>> sys.getsizeof(a)
8000000064
That is 1000000000 8-byte pointers, as I expected.
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