String changing size on failure?

[Skip Montanaro]

Leave it to DB to ask the tough questions other people won't. :-)

Skip


On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> From David Beazley (https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/925787482515533830):
>
>     >>> a = 'n'
>     >>> b = 'ñ'
>     >>> sys.getsizeof(a)
>    50
>     >>> sys.getsizeof(b)
>    74
>     >>> float(b)
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'ñ'
>     >>> sys.getsizeof(b)
>    77
>
> Huh?
>
> --Ned.
>
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