[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Array -> String: array length

[Jean-Bernard ADDOR]

I am very happy to hear about the length of the numpy arrays other users
uses because I uses these day pow(2,22) = len(array) = 4194304 and I
seriously ask me questions about python memory managment. My program uses
hundreds Megs of RAM. My question is how many memory uses a
Numeric.array(pow(2,22), Numeric.Float) is it much more than pow(2,24)
bytes ?

A bientot,

	Jean-Bernard


On Wed, 7 May 1997, Konrad Hinsen wrote:

> Just in case anyone wonders *why* I am doing this: I need to store
> long string in netCDF files, which have no special string type, just
> arrays of characters. And those strings can easily reach a length of
> 500000!
> 
> Konrad.
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