MemoryError when list append... plz help

[James Mills]

(Sorry for top posting):

You are mad! Why on God's earth would you want
to create a list containing 60 MILLION elements ?

What is the use case ? What are you solving ?

You may have 4G of ram, but I very seriously
doubt you have 4G of ram available to Python.

I have no idea how many bytes of memory
storing each element of a list consumes
let alone each float object, but I assure you
it's not going to be anywhere near that of
60494500 4-bytes spaces (do floats in C
normally consume 4 bytes) in C.

--JamesMills

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM, [BON] <alooha at live.co.kr> wrote:
>
> ======================
> s=[]
> for i in range(11000-1):
>    for j in range(i+1, 11000):
>        ....
>        s.append(((i,j),sim))
> ======================
> above sim is floating type.
> s.append is totally coducted 60,494,500 times.
> but this code raise MemoryError.
>
> My computer has 4G RAM.
> i think it's enough. but it doesn't...
>
> So, i've tested below code.
> ======================
> a=[]
> i=0
> while i<60494500 :
>    a.append(i)
>    i+=1
> ======================
> but this code raise also MemoryError.
>
> How can i resolve this problem?
> please, help...
>
> Regards,
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