import psutil
import os
import random
import gc

STRINGS = 10000
LENGTH = 300

l = [None] * STRINGS

gc.collect()

init = (psutil.Process(os.getpid()).memory_info().vms)

for i in range(STRINGS):
    l[i] = "".join(chr(random.randrange(1,2000)) for j in range(LENGTH))

gc.collect()

now = psutil.Process(os.getpid()).memory_info().vms

print(now, now-init, (now-init)/STRINGS)

init = now

for i in range(STRINGS):
    l[i].encode()

gc.collect()

now = psutil.Process(os.getpid()).memory_info().vms

print(now, now-init, (now-init)/STRINGS)