How to Eat Memory using Python?

Question

Just for experiment, and Fun... I am trying to create an app that can \"Purposely\" consume RAM as much as we specify immediately. e.g. I want to consume 512 MB RAM, then the ap

Answer 1

One simple way might be:

some_str = ' ' * 512000000

Seemed to work pretty well in my tests.

Edit: in Python 3, you might want to use bytearray(512000000) instead.