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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Python on FreeBSD -- problems?
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Thank you.  I will try this.

Andrew Gould

--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:
> On 2002-04-22 16:42, Andrew Gould wrote:
> > The code is attached in the text file thcic.py. 
> The
> > traceback mentions a memory error at line 37.
> 
> My guess is you're running out of memory or hitting
> some memory
> allocation limit because datasource.readlines()
> tries to fetch all the
> data from the datasource and store it in memory near
> line 37.
> 
>     34	#Read each line of the data source and insert
> the fields and tab delimiters
>     35	#into the outfile.
>     36
>     37	for recordn in datasource.readlines():
>             ...
>    146	datasource.close()
>    147	newfile.close()
> 
> You're probably hitting the user limits imposed by
> FreeBSD on you,
> even though the system still has free memory.  Try
> rewriting this loop
> to read one line at a time, and see if it solves the
> problem.
> 
> - Giorgos
> 


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