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Re: chunking a long string?

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On 08/11/2013 20:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:43 AM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oops, sorry, I'm wrong, it can be much more.
>>
>>>>> sys.getsizeof('ab')
>> 27
>>>>> sys.getsizeof('a\U0001d11e')
>> 48
>>>>>
>
> I know, overhead sucks doesn't it. Python is really abysmal at that;
> look how big a single bit is:
>
>>>> sys.getsizeof(1)
> 14
>>>> sys.getsizeof(True)
> 14
>
> On the flip side, Python gets really awesome at some other things.
> Your operating system probably takes an entire CD to distribute, maybe
> even a DVD, so that's either 700MB or 4.7GB, give or take. Look how
> efficiently Python can represent it:
>
>>>> sys.getsizeof(os)
> 36
>
> Wow!
>
> ChrisA
>

Those figures look really good but I actually want figures that do 
things my way, even if the figures aren't as good or even suck 
completely.  Can you help me with this even if I've already asked 42 
times before but have always been given the same figures in response?

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence

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chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-08 12:48 -0500
  Re: chunking a long string? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-08 12:43 -0800
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 07:53 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-08 20:57 +0000
    Re: chunking a long string? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-11-08 15:04 -0600
    Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-08 21:06 +0000
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:04 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:17 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 00:46 +0000
      Re: chunking a long string? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-09 00:14 -0800
        Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 19:26 +1100
          Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 09:37 -0500
            Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 02:02 +1100
              Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 10:21 -0500
                Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 02:30 +1100
                Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 10:35 -0500
            Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 15:37 +0000
              Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 09:14 +1100
                Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-10 06:39 +0000
                Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 19:46 +1100
        Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-09 10:13 +0000
  Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 00:54 +0000

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