Finding size of Variable

[Dave Angel]

 Ayushi Dalmia <ayushidalmia2604 at gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 12:59:46 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2014-02-04 14:21, Dave Angel wrote:
>> 
>> > To get the "total" size of a list of strings,  try (untested):
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > a = sys.getsizeof (mylist )
>> 
>> > for item in mylist:
>> 
>> >     a += sys.getsizeof (item)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I always find this sort of accumulation weird (well, at least in
>> 
>> Python; it's the *only* way in many other languages) and would write
>> 
>> it as
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   a = getsizeof(mylist) + sum(getsizeof(item) for item in mylist)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -tkc
> 
> This also doesn't gives the true size. I did the following:
> 
> import sys
> data=[]
> f=open('stopWords.txt','r')
> 
> for line in f:
>     line=line.split()
>     data.extend(line)
> 
> print sys.getsizeof(data)
> 

Did you actually READ either of my posts or Tim's? For a
 container,  you can't just use getsizeof on the container.
 

a = sys.getsizeof (data)
for item in mylist:
      a += sys.getsizeof (data)
print a

-- 
DaveA