Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Fri Jul 19 19:14:06 EDT 2013
On 07/19/2013 06:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:54 AM, <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And do not forget memory. The €uro just become expensive.
>>
>>>>> sys.getsizeof('
>> )
>> 26
>>>>> sys.getsizeof('€')
>> 40
>>
>> I do not know. When an €uro char need 14 bytes more that
>> a dollar, I belong to those who thing there is a problem
>> somewhere.
>
> Oh, I totally agree. But it's not just the Euro symbol that's
> expensive. Look how much I have to pay for a couple of square
> brackets!
>
>>>> sys.getsizeof((1))
> 14
>>>> sys.getsizeof([1])
> 40
>
And look how much a comma costs us (on 64bit 3.3):
>>> sys.getsizeof((1))
28
>>> sys.getsizeof((1,))
64
>>> sys.getsizeof([1])
80
;-)
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DaveA
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