On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Ryniek90 <rynie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> >> Ryniek90 <rynie...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> When i wanted to send an .iso file of 4GB length, i had traceback: >>> "OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string >>> can hold" >>> >> >> You're not supposed to put the 4GB all in one string. Open the >> socket and send smaller packets through it. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Ok, so i will split that data for smaller files. But i've still haven't got > answer for question: "What's the max. length of string bytes which Python > can hold?
sys.maxsize The largest positive integer supported by the platform’s Py_ssize_t type, and thus the maximum size lists, strings, dicts, and many other containers can have. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list