Elaborate that sizeof only accounts for the object itself.

1e5d0ff8 · Martin v. Löwis · 2b3eb0db · 1e5d0ff8
Commit 1e5d0ff8 authored Jun 17, 2012 by Martin v. Löwis
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@@ -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.
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   If given, *default* will be returned if the object does not provide means to
   retrieve the size.  Otherwise a :exc:`TypeError` will be raised.