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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2012-06-17 08:40:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2012-06-17 08:40:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 1e5d0ff8a02d18367001f009886241319331cc3f (patch) | |
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Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 55c06ca..c7b3ea9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -441,6 +441,9 @@ always available. does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation specific. + Only the memory consumption directly attributed to the object is + accounted for, not the memory consumption of objects it refers to. + If given, *default* will be returned if the object does not provide means to retrieve the size. Otherwise a :exc:`TypeError` will be raised. |