Size of an object in memory?

[Michael Hudson]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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?

Damn, I was sure I checked that.  What's even wierder is that I can't
find the relavent thread any more, either.  There's a bit of it here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=j4snbl79ts.fsf%40informatik.hu-berlin.de&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fas_ugroup%3Dcomp.lang.python%26as_usubject%3Ddata%2520size%26as_scoring%3Dd%26hl%3Den

(I haven't tried to trim the URL this time...).  It started with the
message-ID

<_6FG7.33159$i4.5175661 at news0.telusplanet.net>

which is still on my news server if that's any help.

This article isn't on google (any more).  Wierd.  Maybe it'll turn up
soon?

perplexed-ly yr's
M.

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