"Brett Hoerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Jun 18, 11:07 am, "filox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how >> could >> i get the size of a list or a tuple? > > "Size" can mean a lot of things, > > len(my_list) > len(my_tuple) > > Although I have the feeling you mean "how many bytes does this object > take in memory" - and I believe the short answer is no. >
is there a long answer? what i want is to find out the number of bytes the object takes up in memory (during runtime). since python has a lot of introspection mechanisms i thought that should be no problem... -- You're never too young to have a Vietnam flashback -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
