Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 390f73d..2e39633 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -409,6 +409,16 @@
:func:`setrecursionlimit`.
+.. function:: getsizeof(object)
+
+ Return the size of an object in bytes. The object can be any type of
+ object. All built-in objects will return correct results, but this
+ does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation
+ specific.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+
.. function:: _getframe([depth])
Return a frame object from the call stack. If optional integer *depth* is