"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 Python.

Jun 17, 2017 · A string has an attribute __len__, a function that returns the length of the string. Thus, the following solution does not use built-ins, but the calculation is trivial (without calculating operations, …

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?

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 elements. Thus, …

What's the best way to split a string into fixed length chunks and work with them in Python? Asked 12 years, 5 months ago Modified 1 year, 3 months ago Viewed 96k times

Mar 30, 2022 · The private key can be an odd-length string, as hex() will exclude leading zeros from its output (if they exist). To resolve, pad the private key with enough zeros to make it 64 characters.

May 20, 2010 · 4 You can't actually "truncate" a Python string like you can do a dynamically allocated C string. Strings in Python are immutable. What you can do is slice a string as described in other …

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 have to copy the …

How can I get the length of a string without using the len() function or any string methods?