"codecraig" wrote:
> so each character in the string is 1 byte? if so, can u point me to
> somewhere that states that perhaps?
the documentation, perhaps?
http://www.python.org/doc/ref/types.html
Strings
The items of a string are characters. There is no separate
character type; a
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
so each character in the string is 1 byte? if so, can u point me to
somewhere that states that perhaps?
thanks
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Jaime Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 t
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 depen
