Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It's actually not possible, in general, to compute the memory consumption of an object using basicsize and itemsize. An example is the dictionary, where there is no way to find out how many slots are currently allocated.
Even for the things such as lists where the formula basicsize+len*itemsize would be correct it may fail, e.g. a list reports its itemsize as zero, even though each list item consumes four bytes (on a 32-bit system). I don't really see a problem with calling it sizeof, so I would then propose sys.sizeof as the appropriate location. ---------- nosy: +loewis __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2898> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
