[Tutor] A Million Sevens

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A mildly educated guess would be that python tried to access memory 
Windows wasn't going to allow it to have, effectively causing a BSOD and 
  making Windows restart the system.

Thomas wrote:
> Earlier today I typed the following into my pythonwin interactive 
> interpreter in windows xp:
>  
>  >>> int('7' * 10 ** 6)
>  
> I expected either an error message or it to get stuck and require me to 
> stop the process manually.
>  
> I read that unlike long integers in C, longs in python are only limited 
> by the amount of memory (and virtual memory) your system has.
>  
> Can you guess what it did?
>  
> I'm temped to end the post here, but I'm new to this list and its 
> possible that people might be annoyed by me not getting to the point 
> within my initial post, so here's what it did:
>  
> It thought about it for about 2 seconds then restarted my pc! 
> explanations welcome.
> 
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