Re: problems caused by very large for-loop

2006-12-07 Thread true911
sam wrote: > hi all, > ... > has anyone else bumped up against this problem before? i suppose > for-loops with 250 million iterations are seldom used in most > applications. it was just the first time i'd ever solved a problem by > actually having some insight into how python works at a slightly

Re: problems caused by very large for-loop

2006-12-07 Thread sam
thanks, i'll remember that. it makes sense that there should be a way of doing it... sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: problems caused by very large for-loop

2006-12-07 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
sam wrote: > so far so good, but i was using 'for i in the range(iterations):' a > for loop over each slice of time, where the number of iterations was > getting into the tens of millions. up until about 125,000,000 it > worked, then i got a MemoryError. Your analysis was correct - range() return

problems caused by very large for-loop

2006-12-07 Thread sam
hi all, i am writing some software to model polymerisation kinetics and have created a way of doing so which involves taking ever smaller slices of time to model until some sort of convergence was observed in the results. so far so good, but i was using 'for i in the range(iterations):' a for loo