Measure Object Size Accurately in Python - Sys.GetSizeOf not functioning

Question

I am trying to accurately/definitively find the size differences between two different classes in Python. They are both new style classes, save for one not having sl

Answer 1

You might want to use a different implementation for getting the size of your objects in memory:

>>> import sys, array
>>> sizeof = lambda obj: sum(map(sys.getsizeof, explore(obj, set())))
>>> def explore(obj, memo):
    loc = id(obj)
    if loc not in memo:
        memo.add(loc)
        yield obj
        if isinstance(obj, memoryview):
            yield from explore(obj.obj, memo)
        elif not isinstance(obj, (range, str, bytes, bytearray, array.array)):
            # Handle instances with slots.
            try:
                slots = obj.__slots__
            except AttributeError:
                pass
            else:
                for name in slots:
                    try:
                        attr = getattr(obj, name)
                    except AttributeError:
                        pass
                    else:
                        yield from explore(attr, memo)
            # Handle instances with dict.
            try:
                attrs = obj.__dict__
            except AttributeError:
                pass
            else:
                yield from explore(attrs, memo)
            # Handle dicts or iterables.
            for name in 'keys', 'values', '__iter__':
                try:
                    attr = getattr(obj, name)
                except AttributeError:
                    pass
                else:
                    for item in attr():
                        yield from explore(item, memo)


>>> class Test1:
    def __init__(self):
        self.one = 1
        self.two = 'two variable'


>>> class Test2:
    __slots__ = 'one', 'two'
    def __init__(self):
        self.one = 1
        self.two = 'two variable'


>>> print('sizeof(Test1()) ==', sizeof(Test1()))
sizeof(Test1()) == 361
>>> print('sizeof(Test2()) ==', sizeof(Test2()))
sizeof(Test2()) == 145
>>> array_test1, array_test2 = [], []
>>> for _ in range(3000):
    array_test1.append(Test1())
    array_test2.append(Test2())


>>> print('sizeof(array_test1) ==', sizeof(array_test1))
sizeof(array_test1) == 530929
>>> print('sizeof(array_test2) ==', sizeof(array_test2))
sizeof(array_test2) == 194825
>>> 

Just make sure that you do not give any infinite iterators to this code if you want an answer back.