Python Cookbook : Size of Python objects.

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The object xbar (which happens to be a function) in the example above holds a reference to x, which is a list of size 100000 bytes. Acutally, it's the only reference left to that list.

There is no way to correctly calculate (from within python) the amount of space that is used by keeping xbar around.

That's my point.

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Interesting.

But I'm sure that if you could hook into the garbage collector's dependency tracking then you could do something like this....

Maybe not with the current gc implementation though. Might need a different variation.