On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:24 AM, BlueBird <p...@freehackers.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a program that manages several thousands instances of one > object. To reduce memory > consumption, I want of course that specific object to have the > smallest memory footpring possible. > > I have a few ideas that I want to experiment with, like using > __slots__, using a tuple or using a dict. My > question is: how do I know the memory footprint of a given python > object ? I could not find any > builtin functions for this in the documentation.
sys.getsizeof() - http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.getsizeof Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list