[Tutor] Why does counting to 20 million stress my computer?

[Eric at Zomething]

Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> In this case, range() is a good tool for this job, because it gives us a
> list that we can munge up with random.shuffle().  xrange() gives us just
> an iterable that's specialized only to do sequential counting, so it
> wouldn't be as appropriate here.


Can anyone suggest how I might make the following a bit more efficient in terms of RAM usage (without having to do any additional file operations)?

maxNumber=672,000
maxSample=20,000
nixList=completedNumbers    # a list constructed from pickled data on file
for x in random.Random().sample(xrange(maxNumber),maxSample):
    if (str(x) not in nixList):
        # do a bunch of processing
        # pickle numbers successfully processed for later reference in nixList


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