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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM, martin.v.loewis <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cddaf96c8149

changeset: � 77484:cddaf96c8149

parent: � � �77482:1f6c23ed8218

user: � � � �Martin v. L�wis <martin@v.loewis.de>

date: � � � �Sun Jun 17 10:40:16 2012 +0200

summary:

�Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.



files:

�Doc/library/sys.rst | �3 +++

�1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)





diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst

--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst

+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst

@@ -441,6 +441,9 @@

� �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.