On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Andrew Robinson <andr...@r3dsolutions.com> wrote: > If you re-check my post to chris, I listed the struct you mention. > The C code is what is actually run (by GDB breakpoint test) when a tuple is > instantiated.
When you were running GDB, were you debugging the interactive interpreter or a precompiled script? The interactive interpreter does a compilation step for every line entered. > If the tuple were stripped of the extra data -- then it ought to be as small > as slice(). > But it's not as small -- so either the sys.getsizeof() is lying -- or the > struct you mention is not complete. As just explained, the extra 16 bytes are added by the garbage collector. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
