This one has been answered already here: Python memory profiler
Basically you do something like that (cited from Guppy-PE):
>>> from guppy import hpy; h=hpy()
>>> h.heap()
Partition of a set of 48477 objects. Total size = 3265516 bytes.
Index Count % Size % Cumulative % Kind (class / dict of class)
0 25773 53 1612820 49 1612820 49 str
1 11699 24 483960 15 2096780 64 tuple
2 174 0 241584 7 2338364 72 dict of module
3 3478 7 222592 7 2560956 78 types.CodeType
4 3296 7 184576 6 2745532 84 function
5 401 1 175112 5 2920644 89 dict of class
6 108 0 81888 3 3002532 92 dict (no owner)
7 114 0 79632 2 3082164 94 dict of type
8 117 0 51336 2 3133500 96 type
9 667 1 24012 1 3157512 97 __builtin__.wrapper_descriptor
<76 more rows. Type e.g. '_.more' to view.>
>>> h.iso(1,[],{})
Partition of a set of 3 objects. Total size = 176 bytes.
Index Count % Size % Cumulative % Kind (class / dict of class)
0 1 33 136 77 136 77 dict (no owner)
1 1 33 28 16 164 93 list
2 1 33 12 7 176 100 int
>>> x=[]
>>> h.iso(x).sp
0: h.Root.i0_modules['__main__'].__dict__['x']
>>>