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> I honestly have not seen this, and the reason makes no sense. Your browser is not handling the data. The kernel is. I mean yes, if you try to load several GB
by paulgb 7y ago
> I honestly have not seen this, and the reason makes no sense. Your browser is not handling the data. The kernel is. I mean yes, if you try to load several GB of data in pandas, it's possible you will have problems if you run out of RAM, but this has nothing to do with notebooks.
This is true nowadays with Jupyter, because it is smart about truncating output. But it used to be possible to OOM the browser by e.g. printing in an long-running loop or displaying too long of a list/table.
- BeetleB 7y agoMostly I used pandas Series/Dataframes, and they've always had built-in protection for not printing too much. But I guess if you're manually printing in a for-loop, then I suppose you could make the browser crash - whereas tools like MATLAB wouldn't.