[Python-ideas] Memory limits [was Re: Membership of infinite iterators]

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:39:28PM +0300, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>
> > I'm writing from my phone now, cause I was dumb enough to try
> list(count())
>
> You have my sympathies -- I once, due to typo, accidentally ran
> something like range(10**100) in Python 2.
>
>
​Oh, I think I've done something like that too, and there are definitely
still opportunities in Python 3 to ask for the impossible. But what I did
now, I did "on purpose".​ For a split second, I really wanted to know how
bad it would be. But a few minutes later I had little interest left in that
;). Rebooting a computer definitely takes longer than restarting a Python
process.


>
> > But should it be fixed in list or in count?
>
> Neither. There are too many other places this can break for it to be
> effective to try to fix each one in place.
>
>
​To clarify, I was talking about allowing Ctrl-C to break it, which
somebody had suggested. That would also help if the C-implemented iterable
just takes a lot of time to generate the items.

​And for the record, I just tried

>>> sum(itertools.count())

And as we could expect, it does not respect Ctrl-C either.


––Koos



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