Hi Steve,

2017-10-19 1:59 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>:

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:51:37PM +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:

> $ softlimit -m 1000000000 python3
[...]
> MemoryError
>
>
> People who are worried could make a python3 alias or use Ctrl-\.

I just tried that on two different Linux computers I have, and neither
have softlimit.

Yeah, not sure what "softlimit" is either.

I'd suggest sticking to POSIX-standard ulimit or just stick

something like this in the .pythonrc.py:

import resource
resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_DATA, (2 * 1024**3, 2 * 1024**3))

Nor (presumably) would this help Windows users.

I (quickly) tried to get something to work using the win32 package,

in particular the win32job functions.
However, it seems setting

"ProcessMemoryLimit" using win32job.SetInformationJobObject

had no effect
(i.e.  a subsequent win32job.QueryInformationJobObject

still showed the limit as 0)?

People with stronger Windows-fu may be aware what is going on here...

Stephan