On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: > > On 01/20/2012 02:04 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > Even if a MemoryException is raised I believe that is still a > fundamental change in the documented contract of dictionary API. > > How so? Dictionary inserts can *already* raise that error. > > Because it's raising it for a fundamentally different thing. "You have > plenty of memory, but we decided to add an arbitrary limit that has nothing > to do with memory and pretend you are out of memory anyways". > Actually due to fragmentation that can already happen. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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