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Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, eli.bendersky, flox, loewis, ncoghlan, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2012-06-17.07:37:25
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Message-id	<1339918645.78.0.564031630235.issue14055@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Given how C's sizeof works, it may be debatable whether it's natural to expect that sys.getsizeof should be recursive. If you have a struct with pointers (say, char*) in C, and you do sizeof, the string length isn't considered, either. But I'm certainly fine with making this more clear.

Given how C's sizeof works, it may be debatable whether it's natural to expect that sys.getsizeof should be recursive. If you have a struct with pointers (say, char*) in C, and you do sizeof, the string length isn't considered, either.

But I'm certainly fine with making this more clear.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-17 07:37:25	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, ncoghlan, Arfrever, eli.bendersky, flox, serhiy.storchaka
2012-06-17 07:37:25	loewis	set	messageid: <1339918645.78.0.564031630235.issue14055@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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