Help: sizeof() and reference in python?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gene Chiaramonte <gchiaramonte at ibl.bm> wrote:
> Is there a way to get the size of an object in python?

nope.

> I'd also like to get a reference to an object.

*all* Python variables are references to objects.

but that doesn't help you: assignment modifies the
target namespace, not the object.  objects cannot
be overwritten.

or in other words, "a = b" doesn't modify the object
that "a" pointed to before the assignment.  nor does
it modify the object pointed to by "b".

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