Can Python make a large program with lots of gigabytes?

[Skaperen]

i wrote a little test script to use as much memory as it can.  it's taking quite a while.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from copy import deepcopy
tree = { 'subtree':{ 1:'one', 2:'two' } }
for n in range( 0xffffffffffff ):
    print( n )
    tree['foo'] = deepcopy( tree )
    tree['bar'] = deepcopy( tree )

i guess i didn't need such a large argument for range()

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it's using 95% of memory and 20% of CPU, so it must be swapping heavily.

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i gave up on it.  i was running it in 3 different size cloud instances in parallel.  i terminated all 3.

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you didn't think i would run it on my laptop did you?