what happens when the file begin read is too big for all lines tobe?read with "readlines()"

[Mike Meyer]

"Ross Reyes" <rossreyes at rcn.com> writes:

> Yes, I have read this part....
> How does one tell exactly what the limitation is to the size of  the
> returned list of strings?

There's not really a good platform-indendent way to do that, because
you'll get memory until the OS won't give you any more.

       <mike
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