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

[Christophe]

Gerald Klix a écrit :
> Did you consider the mmap library?
> Perhaps it is possible to avoid to hold these big stings in memory.
> BTW: AFAIK it is not possible in 32bit windows for an ordinary programm 
> to allocate more than 2 GB. That restriction comes from the jurrasic 
> MIPS-Processors, that reserved the upper 2 GB for the OS.

As a matter of fact, it's Windows which reserved the upper 2 GB. There a 
simple setting to change that value so that you have 3 GB available and 
another setting which can even go as far as 3.5 GB available per process.