On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > From David Beazley (https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/925787482515533830): > > >>> a = 'n' > >>> b = 'ñ' > >>> sys.getsizeof(a) > 50 > >>> sys.getsizeof(b) > 74 > >>> float(b) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'ñ' > >>> sys.getsizeof(b) > 77 > > Huh?
There are optional parts to the Python string object that don't get memory allocated for them until they're used. Apparently calling float() on a string triggers one of those allocations (possibly the UTF-8 representation?). You'd have to mess around with ctypes to see exactly what's going on. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
