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Thu Oct 28 00:00:32 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-October/104959.html

Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>
> > Isn't this usually when you do something like [None]*2**300? In that
> > case, wouldn't you know how much memory you're requesting?
>
> It could happen on any malloc. It depends on how much you have free.

It also depends on how much is being requested. The caller knows that
amount, surely?

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[Python-Dev] MemoryError... how much memory?