Jeff Epler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How much output are you talking about?
Honestly, I don't know. I came on to a project were they said they were hitting up against some limit, and had a hack to work around it. I just wondered if others had hit some limit too and found diffrent workarounds. > I tried outputs as large as > about 260 megabytes without any problem. (RedHat 9, Python 2.2) > > >>> len(commands.getoutput("dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=512000 2>/dev/null")) > 262144000 > >>> 512 * 512000 > 262144000 I tried the same tests on CentOS, Python 2.3.4 and on Solaris 9 w/ Python 2.3.3. No problems. -- Regards, Travis Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list