Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > The code attached below produces in one of the two IMHO similar cases > (excepting the sizes of the lists involved) MemoryError. Could experts > kindly tell why that's so and whether there is any work-around feasible.
Here's a simpler way to reproduce the error: >>> import ast >>> def nested_list_literal(n): ... return "[" * n + "42" + "]" * n ... >>> ast.literal_eval(nested_list_literal(98)) [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[42]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] >>> ast.literal_eval(nested_list_literal(99)) s_push: parser stack overflow Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ast.py", line 47, in literal_eval node_or_string = parse(node_or_string, mode='eval') File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ast.py", line 35, in parse return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST) MemoryError You ran into a limitation of the compiler. For us to suggest a workaround you'd have to explain why you want to convert the list returned from buildhuffmantree() into python source code and back. > Thanks in advances. > > M. K. Shen > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > import ast > > def buildhuffmantree(slist,flist): > item=slist[:] > freq=flist[:] > while len(item)>2: > mn=min(freq) > id=freq.index(mn) > u=item[id] > del item[id] > del freq[id] > mn1=min(freq) > id=freq.index(mn1) > v=item[id] > del item[id] > del freq[id] > item.append([u,v]) > freq.append(mn+mn1) > return(item) > > def processing(slist,flist): > bintree=buildhuffmantree(slist,flist) > print(bintree) > byarray=bytearray(str(bintree),"latin-1") > bintree1=ast.literal_eval(byarray.decode("latin-1")) > print(bintree1) > print(bintree==bintree1) > > slist1=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 'eof'] > > flist1=[18, 16, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, -1] > > slist2=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, > 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, > 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, > 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, > 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, > 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, > 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, > 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, > 124, 125, 126, 127, 'eof'] > > flist2=[2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, > 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, -1] > > processing(slist1,flist1) ### This works fine > print() > > processing(slist2,flist2) ### This leads to MemoryError -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list