Can someone please explain why n = 50000000 lst = [i for i in range(n)] # or xrange(n) in Python 2
crashes with MemoryError on a 32-bit system, while
n = 50000000
lst = n*[0]
for i in range(n): # or xrange(n) in Python 2
lst[i] = i
works?
Thanks,
Gary Litvin
www.skylit.com
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