Python：最大数组大小？

Question

I have a script that simply reads the files and add their contents to an array. each file have a size of 7M to 15M. and the number of files are 100. in total the size of files are 800M.

full_str = []
for indexfile in files:
    with open(indexfile) as f:
        iindex = f.read()
    full_str += [str(iindex)]

I know from here that the max number of elements should be less than 500M, so it is not a limit here, However I get out of me problem when I run the code. can any one please tell me if there is another limit that kills the process? What should I do?

Answer 1

That's surprising, I found that the process get killed because the content of the files contain non ASKI characters, and it results in this error. So I simply encoded every thing in 'UTF-8' and now it works.