Memory footpring of python objects

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:24 AM, BlueBird <phil at freehackers.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a program that manages several thousands instances of one
> object. To reduce memory
> consumption, I want of course that specific object to have the
> smallest memory footpring possible.
>
> I have a few ideas that I want to experiment with, like using
> __slots__, using a tuple or using a dict. My
> question is: how do I know the memory footprint of a given python
> object ? I could not find any
> builtin functions for this in the documentation.

sys.getsizeof() - http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.getsizeof

Cheers,
Chris
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