Help: sizeof() and reference in python?
Ken Seehof
kens at sightreader.com
Sun Mar 5 16:39:37 EST 2000
Gene Chiaramonte wrote:
> Is there a way to get the size of an object in python? I'd also like to get
> a reference to an object.
Yeah, but you'd have to write it as a C extension and it would be a
rather difficult project. I wonder if this has been done. In a high-level
language like python, people rarely need things like sizeof.
> example in c:
>
> l = [1, 2, 3] #python list
>
> t1 = sizeof(l) // how i'd do it in c
Be careful: The python list is implemented as an array of pointersto objects.
In this case, the objects are pre-allocated integer constants
(because they are small), and in any case the objects themselves are
not part of the memory usage of the list.
> t2 = &l
Everything is a reference already (if you are thinking low-level).But this is
misleading because '=' is not an assignment operator,
(except when following a subscript, or in some cases an attribute).
If you are confused by what I am saying, that's a good start.
I recommend spending some quality time with your interpreter
trying different things till you understand exactly what '=' does.
> Thanks,
>
> Gene
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