How many is "too many" with lists?

[Matthew Hirsch]

I'm building a list of lists each holding a combination of nCk where n 
is the total number of numbers and k is the number you are choosing.  
For example, I have 27 numbers, 0-26.  Looking at all combinations of 6 
taken from this sample produces 27!/(27-6)!6! =296010 different 
combinations stored in the original list.

Matt










In article 
<Pine.LNX.4.10.10005020824370.13821-100000 at propylaea.anduin.com>, 
Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware.com> wrote:

> Yes. Try avoiding the numbers 7, 11, 58, and 93.
> I hate 93. Especially after what it did to my sister.
> But seriously. What are you doing with the lists that is slow?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Matthew Hirsch wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is there a rough number of elements in a list that python or a computer 
> > has trouble dealing with?  I'm using a P233 with 64MB RAM.  I have 
> > ~25000 elements in a list, and things seem to be slowing down.  Is 
> > there 
> > some number that I should try avoiding?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
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