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Pradipto Banerjee wrote:=0D=0A> Thanks, I tried that=2E Still got MemoryErr=
or, but at least this time python tried to use the physical memory=2E=0D=0A=
> What I noticed is that before it gave me the error it used up to 1=2E5GB =
(of the 2=2E23 GB originally showed as=0D=0A> available) - so in general, p=
ython takes up more memory than the size of the file itself=2E=0D=0A=0D=0A=
=0D=0AOf course it will=2E Python has to keep its own code in memory and =
=0D=0Aload the file=2E Not to mention that the file is converted from data =
=0D=0Ainto a Python object with its own overhead=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ARamit Prasad=
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