Steven,
Wonderful! You and your references answered all my questions.
I had missed 2.6's new getsizeof() function. Yet another reason to do
the 2.5-to-2.6 upgrade.
Regards,
Malcolm
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:10:34 -0500, python wrote:
> Is there a formula for determining the approximate size of a dictionary
> (minus its data) under 32 and 64 bit Python with a specific average key
> size?
If you're using Python 2.6, the sys module has a new function getsizeof()
which returns th
Is there a formula for determining the approximate size of a dictionary
(minus its data) under 32 and 64 bit Python with a specific average key
size?
For instance, if we were running a 64-bit version of Python and created
a dictionary of 1 million items with an average key length of 48 bytes,
is
