[issue40772] module 'resource' has no attribute 'RLIMIT_VMEM'

[Titusz Ban]

New submission from Titusz Ban <tituszban at gmail.com>:

While trying to limit the virtual memory used by a process, using

import resource
MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY = 1 * 1024 * 1024
resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_VMEM, (MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY, MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY))

The following error occurred:

AttributeError: module 'resource' has no attribute 'RLIMIT_VMEM'

This is on Ubuntu 16.04 running inside WSL. on Python 3.8.2.

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messages: 369902
nosy: Titusz Ban
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: module 'resource' has no attribute 'RLIMIT_VMEM'
type: crash
versions: Python 3.8

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