On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > (I expect the difference in behaviour is due to the default ulimit under > Debian/Mint and RedHat/Fedora systems.)
Possibly also virtual memory settings. Allocating gobs of memory with a huge page file slows everything down without raising an error. And since it's possible to have non-infinite but ridiculous-sized iterators, I'd not bother putting too much effort into protecting infinite iterators - although the "huge but not infinite" case is, admittedly, rather rarer than either "reasonable-sized" or "actually infinite". ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
