[Numpy-discussion] Unhelpful errors trying to create very large arrays?

[David Cournapeau]

Hi Matthew,

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I notice this gives much more helpful memory errors on a 64 bit
> machine with 4GB of memory.

Can you tell me which version of numpy and which platform you are
using ? I get a different (and ever more confusing) error message when
the size overflows an int - I get "negative dimension not allowed".

cheers,

David