On Jan 25, 2:07 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/25/2010 2:05 PM, Alexander Moibenko wrote: > > > I have a simple question to which I could not find an answer. > > Because it has no finite answer > > > What is the total maximal size of list including size of its elements? > > In theory, unbounded. In practice, limited by the memory of the interpreter. > > The maximum # of elements depends on the interpreter. Each element can > be a list whose maximum # of elements ..... and recursively so on... > > Terry Jan Reedy
I am not asking about maximum numbers of elements I am asking about total maximal size of list including size of its elements. In other words: if size of each list element is ELEMENT_SIZE and all elements have the same size what would be the maximal number of these elements in 32 - bit architecture? I see 3 GB, and wonder why? Why not 2 GB or not 4 GB? AlexM AlexM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list