Meador Inge <mead...@gmail.com> added the comment:

It is part of runtime services and is mentioned in the documentation for 
'sys.getsizeof' [1]:

"""
getsizeof() calls the object’s __sizeof__ method and adds an additional garbage 
collector overhead if the object is managed by the garbage collector.
"""

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html?highlight=__sizeof__#sys.getsizeof.

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