Python: getting correct string length when it contains surrogate pairs

Question

Consider the following exchange on IPython:

In [1]: s = u\'華袞與緼         


        

Answer 1

I think this has been fixen in 3.3. See:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.3.html
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/ (search for wstr_length)