On 2014-02-04 14:21, Dave Angel wrote: > To get the "total" size of a list of strings, try (untested): > > a = sys.getsizeof (mylist ) > for item in mylist: > a += sys.getsizeof (item)
I always find this sort of accumulation weird (well, at least in Python; it's the *only* way in many other languages) and would write it as a = getsizeof(mylist) + sum(getsizeof(item) for item in mylist) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
