Byte size of string

OSCC · Python, String · Nov 2, 2020

Returns the length of a string in bytes.

• Use str.encode() to encode the given string and return its length.

def byte_size(s):
  return len(s.encode('utf-8'))

byte_size('😀') # 4
byte_size('Hello World') # 11

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