30-seconds-of-code/python/snippets/byte-size.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Byte size of string	snippet	string	river-house-lights	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.

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

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