I have list.txt. This file consist from strings:
name1
name2
name3
name4
name5
...
On disk file space near 196 MB.
But after loading it into memory:
L = []
F = open('list.txt')
L = F.readlines()
F.close()
he placed there 1,3 GB.
Please tell why there is so huge difference between on-disk file and his copy in list structure in RAM?
Running with Python 2.7 on Windows 7 x64.
