How many bytes long is a string?

[Tim Peters]

[Thomas Gagne]
> Hmm.  I need to know how many bytes a String is going to be.  Given
>
> s = "Now is the time"

len(s); string is a sequence type; len is a polymorphic builtin that can be
applied to all sequence types; note that len(string) actually returns the
number of characters, not the number "of bytes"; that becomes a more
important distinction in 1.6 with the introduction of Unicode strings.

> ...
> I would prefer to stick with objectname.methodname() but the obvious
> ones aren't working.

None of the builtin sequence types support a method to get their length;
invest a little time studying the "builtin functions" section of the Library
Reference Manual before you go looking for other methods that don't exist
<wink>.