[issue27559] Crash On bytearray()

Changes by Berker Peksag : -- resolution: remind -> not a bug stage: -> resolved ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue27559] Crash On bytearray()

pablo sacristan added the comment: I know, but then shouldn't you try limiting the amount of data it allocates? Or maybe allow for keyboard interrupts to be used while the it is going on, because keyboard interrupts weren't working while it was working. -- resolution: not a bug -> remi

[issue27559] Crash On bytearray()

Martin Panter added the comment: bytearray(n) needs to allocate n bytes. Unless your computer has 1024 GiB of memory, this is not going to be possible. If you are using an OS like Linux, it may pretend to allocate that much memory, and then kill the process when it realizes it has overallocate

[issue27559] Crash On bytearray()

New submission from pablo sacristan: There is a crash on bytearray(), not really a crash but rather the process gets killed by the kernel, but that is a crash, and the keyboard interrupt stops working while bytearray is working, so you can either restart python or wait for python to get killed