[Python-ideas] Bad programming style in decorators?

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 03.01.16 04:42, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Finally, we get to the question of relative size: are function
> instances larger or smaller than your typical class instance? Again,
> we don't have to guess, we can use the interpreter to experiment and
> check our assumptions:
>
>      >>> import sys
>      >>> def f(): pass
>      ...
>      >>> sys.getsizeof(f)
>      136
>      >>> class C(): pass
>      ...
>      >>> sys.getsizeof(C())
>      56

sys.getsizeof() returns only the bare size of the object, not including 
the size of subobjects. To calculate total size you have to sum sizes of 
all subobjects recursively. [1]

[1] http://bugs.python.org/file31822/gettotalsizeof.py