Size of an object in memory?
Fernando Pérez
fperez528 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 14 10:25:11 EST 2001
Michael Hudson wrote:
> Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any way (at runtime, dynamically) to obtain the size in
>> bytes of a given object in memory?
>
> Didn't we do this a few days ago? See this thread:
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=_6FG7.33159%24i4.5175661%40news0.telusplanet.net&rnum=1
>
> but, in short, no, and you don't really want to know.
>
Sorry to bug, but I'm new to the list and I'm not sure which thread you're
talking about. If I hit the link you provide I get a blank in google. Could
you repost the correct link if you have it handy?
>> Since multiple names may be bound to the same object, is it possible
>> to obtain the size of the underlying object and a list of all other
>> names bound to it?
>
> Not easily. Or maybe not at all. Oh, hang on: see gc.get_referents.
> This may be new in Python 2.2, though.
>
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it when I get 2.2 on.
Cheers,
F.
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