Possible to set cpython heap size?

[Andy Watson]

I have an application that scans and processes a bunch of text files.
The content I'm pulling out and holding in memory is at least 200MB.

I'd love to be able to tell the CPython virtual machine that I need a
heap of, say 300MB up front rather than have it grow as needed.   I've
had a scan through the archives of comp.lang.python and the python
docs but cannot find a way to do this.  Is this possible to configure
the PVM this way?

Much appreciated,
Andy
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