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. Don't think on getting a MemoryError on a python you just opened in the console. Think about a server with a month of uptime, where you have all the memory fragmented, etc. > Also, why is that useful? It helps to determine why we're having some Memory Errors on our long-lived server, how is the behaviour when that happens, etc. Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
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