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What is the amount of memory consumed by repeated string literals?

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asked 2023-06-05 02:31:07 +0000

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answered 2023-06-05 02:32:01 +0000

plato
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In Python, repeated string literals are stored only once in memory due to string interning. This means that the amount of memory consumed by repeated string literals in a program is the same as the amount of memory that would be consumed by a single instance of that string literal.

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