"what function can i use to calculate the size of the string"? What tutorial are you using to learn Python? Please update the question with some information on where and how you're learning …

I've been reading an official Python book for 30 minutes trying to find out how to do this. Problem: I need to put a string in a certain length "field". For example, if the name field was 15 characters …

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

May 5, 2025 · Does this answer your question? How can I determine the byte length of a utf-8 encoded string in Python?

Oct 26, 2008 · I know that Python has a len() function that is used to determine the size of a string, but why is it not a method of the string object?

What's the best way to split a string into fixed length chunks and work with them in Python? Asked 12 years, 3 months ago Modified 1 year, 1 month ago Viewed 96k times

Mar 22, 2014 · I have a string I would like to split into N equal parts. For example, imagine I had a string with length 128 and I want to split it in to 4 chunks of length 32 each; i.e., first 32 chars, …

I need to generate a string with n characters in Python. Is there a one line answer to achieve this with the existing Python library? For instance, I need a string of 10 letters: string_val = '

Pillmod's / Pillmuncher's code is more beautiful, but unfortunately slower than Scheirer's code, because adding to an already long string is an expensive operation (the Python runtime will …

The dollar sign represents a variable-length string, encoded with its length preceeding the string itself. edit: Looks like the length of a variable-length string uses the same data type as the …