What's the limit of variables size in pyhton?

Artur M. Piwko milusi.pysiaczek at buziaczek.pl
Fri Jan 4 10:51:40 EST 2008


In the darkest hour on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:53:28 -0200,
Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> screamed:
>> Is that mean that i can deal with files with size more than 2GB only
>> if the available memory allow
>
> To be more precise, that depends on the OS. On Windows there is a limit of  
> 2GB adressable memory per process (this is unrelated to the amount of  
> physical memory).

That's the 32bit Windows limit only (afaik).

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