Length of binary data in python
<p>I am using Python. I am trying to determine the correct length of bytes in a binary set of data. </p>

<p>If I assign a variable the binary data...</p>

<pre><code>x = "aabb".decode("hex")
</code></pre>

<p>is that the same as </p>

<pre><code>x = b'aabb'
</code></pre>

<p>And if so, how do you get how many bytes that is? (It should be 2 bytes) </p>

<p>When I try:</p>

<pre><code>len(x)
</code></pre>

<p>I get 4 instead of 2 though... </p>

<p>I am worried that x is turned into a string or something else I don't understand because the data types are so fluid in Python...</p>