[PyQt] Getting length of QTextEdit without calling w.toPlainText

[Edward K. Ream]

It there a way to get the length of the text in a QTextEdit without
calling w.toPlainText()?

Something like w.textLength() would substantially reduce the number of
allocated strings in my app.

Thanks.

Edward
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