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Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.

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Martin v. Löwis 2012-06-17 10:40:16 +02:00
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@ -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.