# What's the correct way to get the # byte count of a unicode (UTF-8) string? # I couldn't find a builtin method # and the following is memory inefficient.
ustr = "example\xC2\x9D".decode('UTF-8')
num_chars = len(ustr) # 8
buf = ustr.encode('UTF-8')
num_bytes = len(buf) # 9
# Thanks.
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