Finding size of Variable

[Ayushi Dalmia]

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:13:34 PM UTC+5:30, Dave Angel wrote:
> Ayushi Dalmia <ayushidalmia2604 at gmail.com> Wrote in message:
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> > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 12:59:46 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
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> >> On 2014-02-04 14:21, Dave Angel wrote:
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> >> > To get the "total" size of a list of strings,  try (untested):
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> >> > a = sys.getsizeof (mylist )
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> >> > for item in mylist:
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> >> >     a += sys.getsizeof (item)
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> >> I always find this sort of accumulation weird (well, at least in
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> >> Python; it's the *only* way in many other languages) and would write
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> >> it as
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> >>   a = getsizeof(mylist) + sum(getsizeof(item) for item in mylist)
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> >> -tkc
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> > This also doesn't gives the true size. I did the following:
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> > import sys
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> > data=[]
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> > f=open('stopWords.txt','r')
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> > for line in f:
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> >     line=line.split()
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> >     data.extend(line)
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> > print sys.getsizeof(data)
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> Did you actually READ either of my posts or Tim's? For a
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>  container,  you can't just use getsizeof on the container.
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> a = sys.getsizeof (data)
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> for item in mylist:
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>       a += sys.getsizeof (data)
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> print a
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> -- 
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> DaveA

Yes, I did. I now understand how to find the size.