[Numpy-discussion] Python crashes while printing a huge numpy array (Windows 1.6b2)

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:01 AM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:41 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Till Stensitzki <mail.till at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> due a mistake i found the following bug:
>>>
>>>
>>> import numpy as np
>>> x=np.zeros((262144, 262144))
>>> print x.shape
>>
>> Hm, this is a bit weird. The line x = np.zeros... should fail (you
>> most likely do not have 512 Gb Ram available on your machine :) ).
>> Maybe a check is wrong due to some wrong configuration on windows. Are
>> you on windows 32 or 64 bits ?
>
> 32 bit python on Windows 7 (64)
>
> I get the correct value error with python 2.6.5 and numpy 1.5.1
>
> but on python 2.5.4 with numpy 1.3.0 I get the crash instead of the ValueError.

to rule out two more cases

numpy 1.5.1 on python 2.7.1 32 bit : ValueError
numpy 1.5.1 on python 3.2    64 bit: MemoryError

Josef

>
>
> Josef
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> David
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