byte-size.md

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Byte size of string	snippet	string	river-house-lights	2020-11-02 19:27:07 +0200

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