On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2013-11-09 07:53, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On the flip side, Python gets really awesome at some other things. >> Your operating system probably takes an entire CD to distribute, >> maybe even a DVD, so that's either 700MB or 4.7GB, give or take. >> Look how efficiently Python can represent it: >> >> >>> sys.getsizeof(os) >> 36 > > Someone has been hanging out too much over on that thread about > compressing random data ;-)
Hey, that's a bit unfair! Operating systems aren't full of random data! At least... well, I can't speak for Windows here... *dives for cover* ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
