byte count unicode string

[willie]

John Machin:

 >Good luck!


Thank you for your patience and for educating me.
(Though I still have a long way to go before enlightenment)
I thought Python might have a small weakness in
lacking an efficient way to get the number of bytes
in a "UTF-8 encoded Python string object" (proper?),
but I've been disabused of that notion.
It's always a nice feeling when my language of choice
withstands my nitpicking.