From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:40:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0b1~210
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Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 55c06ca643..c7b3ea95b0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -441,6 +441,9 @@ always available.
    does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation
    specific.
 
+   Only the memory consumption directly attributed to the object is
+   accounted for, not the memory consumption of objects it refers to.
+
    If given, *default* will be returned if the object does not provide means to
    retrieve the size.  Otherwise a :exc:`TypeError` will be raised.