How can you copy (clone) a string?

[Greg Ewing]

Peter.Rupp at ual.com wrote:
> 
> What I'm trying to do is determine how large a user process can be
> before it runs out of memory.

>>> a = 1000 * 'a' 
>>> b = 1000 * 'a'
>>> id(a)
1052344
>>> id(b)
1091800
>>> 

Loop until done.

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