[Tutor] OverflowError: cannot fit 'long' into an index-sized integer

[eryksun]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Jorge L. <dalveen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When i test that script against 600851475143 I get the following error

You're trying to create a list with over 600 billion items.
sys.maxsize is a bit over 2 billion for 32-bit CPython, but switching
to 64-bit won't help unless you have a few terabytes of memory (8
bytes per pointer). You need to rethink your approach to generating
primes.