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

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Byte size of string	string	blog_images/river-house-lights.jpg	2018-02-01T10:19:59+02:00	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