strange behaviour when writing a large amount of data on stdout

[Fredrik Lundh]

Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32, Windows XP
>
> I have this problem:
>
>>>> n = 61409 + 1
>>>> data = 'x' * n
>
>>>> print data
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "xxx", line xxx, in ?
>    print data
> IOError: [Errno 12] Not enough space

errno 12 is ENOMEM (that is, the system did not have enough memory
to finish an operation).

is the above a complete interpreter session?  if it is, why did you xxx out
the filename (<stdin>) and line number?

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