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

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

Then you need to ask the person who wrote the file. It has nothing to do with Python and everything to do with what the actual file format is. It's pretty odd for a file to be defined as a sequence of words BTW. It is most probably a sequence of 16- or 32-bit integers, or else it really is words in the text sense, in which case you are really scanning the file for tokens between whatever the delimiters are.