Array Memory Allocation Size

Konrad Hinsen hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
Mon Jun 26 05:38:29 EDT 2000


Curtis Jensen <cjensen at bioeng.ucsd.edu> writes:

> I'm using NumPy to allocate heaps of arrays.  Is there a command to find
> out how much space each array is using in memory?

By C code, yes. From Python, no, because you cannot find out
how much space each element takes up, and that is compiler dependent.
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