New submission from Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net:
Nick, can you look at this?
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assignee: ncoghlan
components: Library (Lib)
files: sized_cache.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 124194
nosy: ncoghlan, rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title:
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
The _total_size thing looks like a wildly bad idea to me, since it's so poorly
defined (and relying on a couple of special cases).
Also, currsize is quite bizarre. Why not simply size?
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Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Updated to use ABCs but still relies on user objects implementing __sizeof__.
So it is accurate whenever sys.getsizeof() is accurate.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20095/sized_cache2.diff
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Another thing to work out: not double counting duplicate objects:
[1000, 2000, 3000] is bigger than [None, None, None]
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priority: normal - low
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Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
Updated to use ABCs but still relies on user objects implementing
__sizeof__. So it is accurate whenever sys.getsizeof() is accurate.
I'm really -1 on this. It's better to give no measurement than to give a
totally wrong indication. The fact
Changes by Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net:
Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file20095/sized_cache2.diff
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http://bugs.python.org/issue10725
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Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment:
Indeed, getsizeof() on containers only gives the amount of memory consumed by
the container itself (this can be difficult to figure out externally for
potentially sparse containers like dicts), but leaves the question of the size
of the
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Closed due to lack of interest.
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resolution: - rejected
status: open - closed
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