Tracking *maximum* memory usage by a Python function

Question

I want to find out what the maximum amount of RAM allocated during the call to a function is (in Python). There are other questions on SO related to tracking RAM usage:

Answer 1

Improvement of the answer of @Vader B (as it did not work for me out of box):

$ /usr/bin/time --verbose  ./myscript.py
        Command being timed: "./myscript.py"
        User time (seconds): 16.78
        System time (seconds): 2.74
        Percent of CPU this job got: 117%
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:16.58
        Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
        Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
        Average stack size (kbytes): 0
        Average total size (kbytes): 0
        Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 616092   # WE NEED THIS!!!
        Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
        Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
        Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 432750
        Voluntary context switches: 1075
        Involuntary context switches: 118503
        Swaps: 0
        File system inputs: 0
        File system outputs: 800
        Socket messages sent: 0
        Socket messages received: 0
        Signals delivered: 0
        Page size (bytes): 4096
        Exit status: 0