figuring out # of bytes

[Fredrik Lundh]

"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 character is represented by a string of one
   item. Characters represent (at least) 8-bit bytes. The built-in
   functions chr() and ord() convert between characters and
   nonnegative integers representing the byte values. Bytes
   with the values 0-127 usually represent the corresponding
   ASCII values, but the interpretation of values is up to the
   program. The string data type is also used to represent
   arrays of bytes, e.g., to hold data read from a file.

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