Py2.3: Feedback on Sets

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Mon Aug 18 19:37:14 EDT 2003


Bob Gailer:
> You just have to avoid specifying a negative # too large in magnitude,
> or you will get a memory underflow.

Actually, there's a limit in how much negative memory you can get

>>> d*(-sys.maxint-1)
[]
>>> d*(-sys.maxint-2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
>>>

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com






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