How to determine 'word' size in Python

Question

I need to know the number of bytes in a \'word\' in Python. The reason I need this is I have the number of words I need to read from a file; if I knew the number of bytes in

Answer 1

There is no concept of 'word' in Python, when you read binary data from a file, you can state explicitly, how many bytes should be read at a time.

In terms of compiler and/or platform, 'WORD' generally determines a size of a basic data unit. And Python is independent from that kind of stuff :)