Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

[John Machin]

Ant wrote:
> > > 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.

Doh!  Low blood sugar -- that's the excuse du jour :-)

Cheers,
John