On 4/22/05, Jaime Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 Apr 2005 13:28:57 -0700, codecraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i want to the number of bytes in a string... > > > > is, len(x) accurate? > > > > so, x = "hi" > > len(x) == 2 ....so that means two bytes? > > > > thanks > > No, that means that the string is two bytes in length. The number of > bytes is dependent on the encoding. It seems like there was a thread > on this subject recently.
Ughh, i misstated. More correctly, the string is 2 "characters" in length. The number of bytes per character depends on the encoding. jw -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
