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New Python implementation by user [LucianoRamalho]
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2018-02-05, 11:19:55

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2018-02-14, 15:11:54

Idiom #169 String length

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

Idiom #169 String length

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

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n = len(s)
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If s is a Python 3 str, or a Python 2 unicode, len(s) returns the number of characters. If s is a Python 2 str or a Python 3 bytes, len(s) returns the number of bytes.