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+title: Byte size of string
+type: snippet
+tags: [string]
+cover: river-house-lights
+dateModified: 2020-11-02T19:27:07+02:00
+---
+
+Returns the length of a string in bytes.
+
+- Use `str.encode()` to encode the given string and return its length.
+
+```py
+def byte_size(s):
+  return len(s.encode('utf-8'))
+```
+
+```py
+byte_size('😀') # 4
+byte_size('Hello World') # 11
+```