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| author | Robert Schuppenies <okkotonushi@googlemail.com> | 2008-07-14 10:13:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Robert Schuppenies <okkotonushi@googlemail.com> | 2008-07-14 10:13:31 +0000 |
| commit | fbe94c55ca482bc30a831f8319bdc2074124a4e3 (patch) | |
| tree | ef806672dc53507d7529838ad8250feee9b9d88f /Doc/library/sys.rst | |
| parent | 3065b87a075656d52bb018821c7ba30cea26ec7a (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-fbe94c55ca482bc30a831f8319bdc2074124a4e3.tar.gz | |
Merged revisions 64842,64853,64856,64945 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r64842 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-07-10 15:43:26 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 2 lines
Fixed Issue3122 and extended sys.getsizeof tests for built-in types.
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r64853 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-07-10 17:24:04 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 3 lines
Added additional __sizeof__ implementations and addressed comments made in
Issue3122.
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r64856 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-07-10 19:13:55 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 3 lines
Added garbage collector overhead and optional default return value to
sys.getsizeof.
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r64945 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-07-14 10:42:18 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 2 lines
Fixed test failure on Win64 machines.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 42c36a6fa3..f92b1e4980 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -331,13 +331,20 @@ always available. :func:`setrecursionlimit`. -.. function:: getsizeof(object) +.. function:: getsizeof(object[, default]) Return the size of an object in bytes. The object can be any type of object. All built-in objects will return correct results, but this - does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation + does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation specific. + The *default* argument allows to define a value which will be returned + if the object type does not provide means to retrieve the size and would + cause a `TypeError`. + + func:`getsizeof` calls the object's __sizeof__ method and adds an additional + garbage collector overhead if the object is managed by the garbage collector. + .. versionadded:: 2.6 |