30-seconds-of-code/snippets/byte_size.md

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byte_size	string

Returns the length of a string in bytes.

utf-8 encodes a given string, then len finds the length of the encoded string.

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

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