Too Many if Statements?

[Alan Morgan]

In article <1139330447.716190.247940 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
slogging_away <hinnc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi - I'm running Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310
>32 bit (Intel)] on win32, and have a script that makes numerous checks
>on text files, (configuration files), so discrepancies can be reported.
> The script works fine but it appears that I may have hit a wall with
>'if' statements.
>
>Due to the number of checks perfromed by the script on the text files,
>(over 500), there are quite a few 'if' statements in the script, (over
>1150).  It seems that it is at the point that when I add any additional
>'if' statements the script will not run.  No error is produced - it
>just returns to the python prompt much the same as when a successful
>'Check Module' command is selected.  If I delete some other 'if'
>statements the new ones work so it appears that it has hit a limit on
>the number of 'if' statements.  This has stunted any further checks for
>the script to make on the text files.
>
>Hs anyone ever run into this sort of thing?

I generated files with 10000, 25000, and 50000 simple if statements and ran
them.  10000 was okay, 25000 gave a bizarre internal error, and 50000 segfaulted
and died.  My system has plenty of memory and it isn't obvious to me why python
should be so bothered about this.  I'm not sure why I can have 10x the number of
if statements that cause you trouble.  There might be some overall limitation
on the number of statements in a file.

Alan
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