String changing size on failure?
Skip Montanaro
skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 15:53:43 EDT 2017
Leave it to DB to ask the tough questions other people won't. :-)
Skip
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> From David Beazley (https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/925787482515533830):
>
> >>> a = 'n'
> >>> b = 'ñ'
> >>> sys.getsizeof(a)
> 50
> >>> sys.getsizeof(b)
> 74
> >>> float(b)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'ñ'
> >>> sys.getsizeof(b)
> 77
>
> Huh?
>
> --Ned.
>
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