Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

[Ant]

> > Are you sure ps is reporting in bytes not KB? The bare interpreter in
> > Windows is 3368KB.
>
> Where did you get that from? With Python 2.4.3, on my machine (Win XP
> SP2):
>
> C:\junk>dir \python24\python*
> [snip]
> 29/03/2006  05:35 PM             4,608 python.exe
> 29/03/2006  05:35 PM         1,871,872 python24.dll
> 29/03/2006  05:35 PM             5,120 pythonw.exe

He's asking for the memory required, not the disk space used by the
exe. The 3368KB is reported by the Task Manager.