Charles G Waldman wrote: > This is on a Sun machine: > > >>> x=sys.maxint*[1,] > Traceback (innermost last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > MemoryError > >>> x=sys.maxint*(1,) > Segmentation Fault (core dumped) My SGI Irix 6.3 system shows IDENTICAL results to the Sun on these, as well as your earlier examples... Chad Chad at vision.arc.nasa.gov