MemoryError vs malloc error

[Amit Dev]

Hi,

I've a long running python process (running on freebsd). Sometimes when it
uses too much memory it core dumps. I would've expected it to raise
MemoryError. Normally, when would a python process raise MemoryError and
when would it fail with malloc error and cores? This is happening in pure
python code (Eg. if ' '.join(biglist)) etc.

Regards,
Amit
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