Python dictionary size/entry limit?

2009-02-21 Thread intelliminer
I wrote a script to process textual data and extract phrases from them, storing these phrases in a dictionary. It encounters a MemoryError when there are about 11.18M keys in the dictionary, and the size is about 1.5GB. I tried multiple times, and the error occurs everytime at exactly the same plac

Re: Python dictionary size/entry limit?

2009-02-21 Thread intelliminer
On Feb 21, 6:25 pm, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > intellimi...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wrote a script to process textual data and extract phrases from > > them, storing these phrases in a dictionary. It encounters a > > MemoryError when there are about 11.18M keys in the dictionary, and > > the size is

Re: Python dictionary size/entry limit?

2009-02-21 Thread intelliminer
On Feb 21, 6:47 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote: > intellimi...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wrote a script to process textual data and extract phrases from > > them, storing these phrases in a dictionary. It encounters a > > MemoryError when there are about 11.18M keys in the dictionary, and > > the size is ab