l = range(int(1E9))

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/30/2015 12:06 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> If I execute:
>      l = range(int(1E9)

you get a SyntaxError

> The python process gobbles up all the memory and is killed. The
> problem is that after this my swap is completely used, because other
> processes have swapped to it. This make those programs more slowly. Is
> there a way to circumvent Python claiming all the memory?

For this specific case, use xrange or 3.x range

> By the way: this is CPython 2.7.8.



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Terry Jan Reedy