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BUG: Get sizeof fails for pandas series or data frame when one element is a type #51858

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Reproducible Example

import sys
df=pd.Series(str)

sys.getsizeof(df)
TypeError: descriptor '__sizeof__' of 'str' object needs an argument

Issue Description

Python getsizeof fails on a series which holds a type as data.

More details in the SO question and answer
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75682987/why-does-sys-getsizeof-fail-on-a-pandas-series-or-data-frame-when-they-hold-a-ty/75683341#75683341

Expected Behavior

No type error

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 2e218d1
python : 3.9.16.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.10.147+
Version : #1 SMP Sat Dec 10 16:00:40 UTC 2022
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.5.3
numpy : 1.22.4
pytz : 2022.7.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 57.4.0
pip : 22.0.4
Cython : 0.29.33
pytest : 3.6.4
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 3.5.4
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.9.2
html5lib : 1.0.1
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : 2.9.5
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 7.9.0
pandas_datareader: 0.9.0
bs4 : 4.6.3
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2023.3.0
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.5.3
numba : 0.56.4
numexpr : 2.8.4
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.10
pandas_gbq : 0.17.9
pyarrow : 9.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.10.1
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : 1.4.46
tables : 3.7.0
tabulate : 0.8.10
xarray : 2022.12.0
xlrd : 1.2.0
xlwt : 1.3.0
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2022.7

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