On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM, martin.v.loewis < python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cddaf96c8149 changeset: 77484:cddaf96c8149 parent: 77482:1f6c23ed8218 user: Martin v. Löwis date: Sun Jun 17 10:40:16 2012 +0200 summary: Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.

files: Doc/library/sys.rst | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -441,6 +441,9 @@ does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation specific.

+ Only the memory consumption directly attributed to the object is + accounted for, not the memory consumption of objects it refers to. + If given, *default* will be returned if the object does not provide means to retrieve the size. Otherwise a :exc:`TypeError` will be raised.

Great, thanks. Eli