Is there no compression support for large sized strings in Python?

[Claudio Grondi]

"Harald Karner" <harald_karner at a1.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Claudio Grondi wrote:
> > Anyone on a big Linux machine able to do e.g. :
> >   \>python -c "print len('m' * 2500*1024*1024)"
> > or even more without a memory error?
>
> I tried on a Sun with 16GB Ram (Python 2.3.2)
> seems like 2GB is the limit for string size:
>
>  > python -c "print len('m' * 2048*1024*1024)"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> OverflowError: repeated string is too long
>
>  > python -c "print len('m' * ((2048*1024*1024)-1))"
> 2147483647

In this context I am very curious how many of such
2 GByte strings is it possible to create within a
single Python process?
i.e. at which of the following lines executed
as one script is there a memory error?

dataStringA = 'A'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) #  2 GByte
dataStringB = 'B'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) #  4 GByte
dataStringC = 'C'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) #  6 GByte
dataStringD = 'D'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) #  8 GByte
dataStringE = 'E'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) # 10 GByte
dataStringF = 'F'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) # 12 GByte
dataStringG = 'G'*((2048*1024*1024)-1) # 14 GByte

let 2 GByte for the system on a 16 GByte machine ... ;-)

Claudio