Python 2.0 vs OS/2+EMX

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:

> 2) the longexp test causes python to consume all available memory until
> SWAPPER.DAT exhausts available disk space.  Reducing the number of REPS to
> 30000 (from 65580) doesn't help, but REPS = 10000 works fine.  On the face
> of it a memory management problem of some sort, but where to start?

I forgot to clarify that it appears to be eval() which is having the
problem, as creating the string of the long expression interactively with
REPS = 65580 (as in test_longexp.py) works fine.

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