Python : Get size of string in bytes

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If you want the number of bytes in a string, this function should do it for you pretty solidly. 

def utf8len(s):
    return len(s.encode('utf-8'))

The reason you got weird numbers is because encapsulated in a string is a bunch of other information due to the fact that strings are actual objects in python.

Its interesting because if you look at my solution to encode the string into ‘utf-8’, there’s an ‘encode’ method on the ‘s’ object (which is a string). Well, it needs to be stored somewhere right? Hence, the higher than normal byte count. Its including that method, along with a few others :).

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