Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:32 AM, John Schulman <jos...@caltech.edu > <mailto:jos...@caltech.edu>> wrote: > > I'm getting the error > OverflowError: cannot fit 'long' into an index-sized integer > when I try to memmap a 6gb file > > top of the stack trace is > mm = mmap.mmap(fid.fileno(), bytes, access=acc) > where bytes = 6528000000L > > I thought that 64-bit systems with python>2.5 could memmap large > files. I'm running the latest EPD python distribution (4.2.30201), > which uses python 2.5.4 and numpy 1.2.1 > Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.5.6 > > > Is your python 64 bits? Try: > > file `which python`
This is even better: python -c "import platform; print platform.machine()" as mac os x can be confusing with fat binaries and all :) David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion