[Edu-sig] MemoryError?

[Litvin]

Can someone please explain why

n = 50000000
lst = [i for i in range(n)] # or xrange(n) in Python 2

crashes with MemoryError on a 32-bit system, while

n = 50000000
lst = n*[0]
for i in range(n):  # or xrange(n) in Python 2
     lst[i] = i

works?

Thanks,

Gary Litvin
www.skylit.com

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