File too Large python

Question

I am writing to a file using python. The script suddenly stops running and throws an \'IOError: [Errno 27] File too large\' Is there a limit on the size of the file that you

Answer 1

I also got this error when I had too many files in one directory. I had 64435 files in a directory, each with 10 digits + '.json' in their names, and any subsequent attempts to write new files to the directory threw errors (e.g.) OSError: [Errno 27] File too large: 'ngrams/0/0/0/0000029503.json'