Manipulating large blobs in Python

[Tim Stone]

I'm working on a module that will manipulate large blobs. I'm using a C
dll to allocate big blocks of memory, using PyMem_Malloc, which is
working quite well up until I try to manipulate a blob that exhausts
Python's heap. I'm guessing that to increase the heapsize, I'm going to
have to recompile python... (??) Am I on the right track? If so, can
you steer me toward some instructions on how to do that compile? I'm a
command-line make kind of dude, and I don't see any of that kind of
stuff in the source distribution. I see .vcproj xml-ish files... do I
need some version of visual studio ide to do the windows compile? It'd
be great if there was some way to increase the heapsize without all that
bother

Tim Stone