Memory sizes of python objects?

[Michael Hudson]

Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> writes:

> | The difference in memory consumption between creating a list 
> | of size 1,000,000 filled with 0's and the same size list filled 
> | with integers from 0 to 999,999 is rather large...
> 
> you make it sound more mysterious than it is - only numbers under
> 100 and identifier-like string literals get interned, afaik.

One character strings too.  Also the empty string and the empty tuple.

M.

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