What's the limit of variables size in pyhton?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:05:41 -0200, هنداوى <3D.v.World at gmail.com> escribi�:
> On Dec 31, 11:26 am, "James Matthews" <nytrok... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> However some Debuggers will not show you variable's that are too big!
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2007 7:38 PM, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > En Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:40:31 -0200, هنداوى <3D.v.Wo... at gmail.com>
>> > escribi�:
>>
>> > > Python allow you to only take care about variable name and ignore  
>> it's
>> > > size because pyhton dynamicly allocate it
>> > > so what's the limit in the allocated size in the memory
>>
>> > As big as would fit on available memory.
>
> Is that mean that i can deal with files with size more than 2GB only
> if the available memory allow

To be more precise, that depends on the OS. On Windows there is a limit of  
2GB adressable memory per process (this is unrelated to the amount of  
physical memory). You may increase that limit to 3GB. I think Python can  
handle all the memory the OS is able to provide.
But do you actually have to keep the whole file in memory?

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Gabriel Genellina