Python-list Digest, Vol 67, Issue 192

[Ryniek90]

Chris Rebert pisze:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Ryniek90 <ryniek90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
>>> Ryniek90 <ryniek90 at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> When i wanted to send an .iso file of 4GB length, i had traceback:
>>>> "OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string
>>>> can hold"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You're not supposed to put the 4GB all in one string.  Open the
>>> socket and send smaller packets through it.
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>       
>> Ok, so i will split that data for smaller files. But i've still haven't got
>> answer for question: "What's the max. length of string bytes which Python
>> can hold?
>>     
>
> sys.maxsize
>     The largest positive integer supported by the platform’s
> Py_ssize_t type, and thus the maximum size lists, strings, dicts, and
> many other containers can have.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>   

Thanks. I've wanted to check very carefully what's up, and i found this: 
"strings (currently restricted to 2GiB)".
It's here, in PEP #353 (PEP 0353 
<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0353/>). Besides of this, i've found 
in sys module's docstring this:

maxint = 2147483647
maxunicode = 1114111

Which when added gives us 2148597758.0 bytes, which are equal to 
2049.0624980926514  MiB's.
So files larger than 2049.06 MiB's should be splitted into smaller ones 
and sent partially.
Correct me if i'm wrong.