getting the size of an object

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On Jun 18, 10:07 am, "filox" <filox_realmmakni... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how could
> i get the size of a list or a tuple?
>
> --
> You're never too young to have a Vietnam flashback

You can use the struct module to find the size in bytes:

    import struct

    mylist = [10, 3.7, "hello"]

    int_count = 0
    float_count = 0
    char_count = 0

    for elmt in mylist:
        if type(elmt) == int:
            int_count += 1
        elif type(elmt) == float:
            float_count += 1
        elif type(elmt) == str:
            char_count += len(elmt)

    format_string = "%di%dd%dc" % (int_count, float_count, char_count)
    list_size_in_bytes  = struct.calcsize(format_string)
    print list_size_in_bytes

--output:--
17