The Faulty Coder

Taming memory of Python objects - slots and weak references

In the last article, I took an example of a simple Python class and using it to demo how dynamic the actual memory footprint of a Python object is and how deceptively large it can be.

The hidden cost of __dict__

Let me continue with our Person class to refresh …

The memory footprint of Python objects

Background

Of late, I was exploring Python again after a while and looking at how classes and instances keep state. Let us look at a simple example of a Python class.

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name, age, gender):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.gender = gender

Let me …