Size in bytes of a dictionary

[David Bolen]

Don O'Donnell <donod at home.com> writes:

> Also beware of automatic interning of strings.  Of course this won't be
> an issue with your key strings, since they must be unique, but duplicate
> value strings may use the same memory location.  I'm not sure under what
> conditions auto-intern takes place but it seems to be related to the
> length of the string.  Here's a little test I just ran:

It's of course potentially version specific, but I think in all recent
(1.5.2+) variants of CPython the interning rule is that it must be a
string consisting soley of alphanumerics and the underscore.  Length
does not appear to be a factor.  (See compile.c in the CPython
source).

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