[Python-Dev] tracking memory consumption

[Martin von Loewis]

> > In PR#214 Martin v. Loewis suggests a sizeof function as result of
> > request to python-help.  I've followed the thread silently until now.
> 
> For such basic computations of the native objects sizes, struct.calcsize
> is your friend.

Unfortunately, it does not work in the general case, or I'm missing
something: Given

>>> a={}
>>> for i in range(1,10):
...   a[i]=i*i
... 

how exactly do you find out the size occupied by a? I don't want to
count the size of the keys and values themselves - just the memory
used by the storage of the references to the keys and the values.

Regards,
Martin