IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files:

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“Too many open files” errors are always tricky – you not only have to twiddle with ulimit, but you also have to check system-wide limits and OSX-specifics. This SO post gives more information on open files in OSX. (Spoiler alert: the default is 256).

However, it is often easy to limit the number of files that have to be open at the same time. If we look at Stefan Bollman’s example, we can easily change that to:

pureResponseNames = ['f'+str(i) for i in range(434)]
outpathDirTest="testCase/"
output_files = [os.path.join(outpathDirTest, fname) + ".txt" for fname in pureResponseNames]

for filename in range(output_files):
    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
        f.write('This is a test of file nr.'+str(i))

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