Help: sizeof() and reference in python?

[Gene Chiaramonte]

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> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Fredrik Lundh
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> Gene Chiaramonte <gchiaramonte at ibl.bm> wrote:
> > I guess I should have been more specific.
> 
> unfortunately, that doesn't help in this case ;-)
> 
> > 1 - I am trying to get the size of an object in bytes to 
> monitor how much
> > memory a list or object occupies.
> 
> you can't.
> 
> (well, you can always do it yourself, using a dictionary
> to map type(object) to approximate size of object. see
> the struct definitions in Include/*.h for more info on how
> the basic types are implemented).

Good idea.

> 
> > 2 - I am trying to get the pointer to the memory address of an object.
> Much
> > like the array objects buffer_info(), where the second item in the
> returned
> > tuple is the pointer to the memory address of the first element of the
> > array.
> 
> since you cannot do anything with it anyway, why not
> just use id(object).  it's a pretty good approximation...

Thanks.

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