sizeof?

Remco Gerlich scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Mon Oct 9 19:52:45 EDT 2000


seung-won hwang <shwang5 at students.uiuc.edu> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is there any operator to measure the size of the object in Python
> something like sizeof in C? I couldn't find any from the book
> and documents I have. Thanks!

There is no way to find the exact number of memory bytes an object uses.
Consider that irrelevant.

To find the length of a list, or a tuple, or other sequences, use len().

Remco Gerlich



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