Help: sizeof() and reference in python?

[Fredrik Lundh]

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).

> 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...

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