I would first like to thank the python developers, contributors and the community for this wonderful programming language.
I am trying to limit the memory consumption of a function; at the same time trying to figure out the maximum memory used during the execution of the same function. I have uploaded the source code and the output of the program I am using to achieve this.
The Memory Used is more than the Memory Limit I have set. Is this the expected output. Or a bug in the code. I am using Python3.8 in ubuntu 20.04 wsl. Any suggestion regarding implementing the functionality I have mentioned would be helpful.
And I am very very sorry if this is the expected output.
Thank You.

1 KiB is too low for Python. The interpreter itself needs more than 10 MiB to start, and more if it imports some modules. I suppose that the limit set affect only new requests for memory from OS, but Python already have some free memory reserved in the memory pool.

With larger limit you can get more reliable data. Note that get_traced_memory() counts only dynamically allocated memory, it does not count static memory, stack memory and memory reserved for the memory pool.

> I am trying to limit the memory consumption of a function

This issue is not a bug in Python, but a question. I suggest to close it and ask your question on a forum to get help.