Is there a better way to solve this?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:55:08 -0700, kracekumar ramaraju wrote:

> You can use sizeof function,

Who are you talking to, and what question did they ask?

Please always quote enough of the post that you are replying to to 
establish context.


>>>> a=12234
>>>> b=23456.8
>>>> a.__sizeof__()
> 12
>>>> b.__sizeof__()
> 16
> So sizeof int is 12 bytes and float is 16 bytes

You shouldn't be calling special methods directly (except under unusual 
circumstances). That's like calling s.__len__() instead of len(s).

The public function for getting the size of an object is in the sys 
module:

sys.getsizeof(a)



-- 
Steven