Memory footpring of python objects

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:30:32 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote:

> 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

Only in Python 2.6.

But if you search Activestate, there's a recipe to do the same thing. Ah, 
here it is:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/546530/



-- 
Steven