Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Optionally we can also not count objects which are referenced from
> outside of a graph of objects (this isn't so easy implement in
> Python). I.e. gettotalsizeof([1, 'abc', math.sqrt(22)], inner=True)
> will count only bare list and a square of 22, because 1 and 'abc' are
> interned.

That's only part of the equation. What if I have an object which
references, for example, a logging.Logger? Loggers are actually eternal
(they live in a global dictionary somewhere in the logging module), but
gettotalsizeof() will still count it.

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