Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if there is a way to know how much memory (bytes, > kilobytes, megabytes, etc) a name is using. > > More specifically, I have this list of strings that I want to write to > a file as lines. > This list grows througout the script execution, and toward the end, > the file is written. > > However I would like to know how much memory, before writing to the > file, is this list using. Is it possible at all?
How about summing up the individual string lengths? total = sum(len(s) for s in my_list) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list