4 Oct
2014
4 Oct
'14
11:18 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 05:13:18PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: [...]
The big downside, I guess, is the RAM usage.
sys.getsizeof(names)
4892352
sum(sys.getsizeof(n) for n in names)
30698194
That's ~32MB of stuff stored, just to allow these lookups.
And presumably it is already stored, to support \N{} and unicodedata.lookup().
For reference, UnicodeData.txt is a 1.4MB text file.
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Steven