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chesschaser

Aug-23-2021, 03:16 PM
Hi guys!

I am writing a program and it has a variable in it of type bytes. i need to get the amount of bytes this variable contains.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks! Smile

deanhystad

Aug-23-2021, 03:24 PM
The same way you get the number of items in any collection; len(collection).
x = b'123456789'
print(len(x))
Output:
9
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