On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:07:31 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
>> I'm interested in gathering some statistics on this, and to do so I
>> need a way of measuring the list's logical size versus its actual size.
>> The first is easy: it's just len(list). Is there some way of getting
>> the allocated siz
Christian Heimes wrote:
def slots(lst):
> ... return (sys.getsizeof(lst) - sys.getsizeof([])) /
D'oh!
Peter
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I'm interested in gathering some statistics on this, and to do so I need
a way of measuring the list's logical size versus its actual size. The
first is easy: it's just len(list). Is there some way of getting the
allocated size of the list?
With Python 2.6 and newer you can use sys.getsizeof() t
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python lists are over-allocated: whenever they need to be resized, they
> are made a little bit larger than necessary so that appends will be fast.
>
> See:
>
> http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/file/e9d930f8b8ff/Objects/listobject.c
>
> I'm interested in gathering some s
Python lists are over-allocated: whenever they need to be resized, they
are made a little bit larger than necessary so that appends will be fast.
See:
http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/file/e9d930f8b8ff/Objects/listobject.c
I'm interested in gathering some statistics on this, and to do so I need
