[Python-Dev] PEP 42: sizeof(obj) builtin

[Samuele Pedroni]

From: "Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger@verizon.net>
> I'm about to start working on this one and wanted
> to check here first to make sure there is still a 
> demand for it and to get ideas on the best implementation
> strategy.
> 
> I'm thinking of summing all of the tp_basicsize slots
> while recursing through tp_traverse.

it is very unlikely that we can implement this in Jython,

I would prefer it to be

sys.sizeof
or sys._sizeof

regards.