Python lists are over-allocated: whenever they need to be resized, they are made a little bit larger than necessary so that appends will be fast.
See: http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/file/e9d930f8b8ff/Objects/listobject.c I'm interested in gathering some statistics on this, and to do so I need a way of measuring the list's logical size versus its actual size. The first is easy: it's just len(list). Is there some way of getting the allocated size of the list? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
