Counting the number of elements in a list - help.

[Bryce C. Mason]

Sure was!  Thanks


"Steingrim Dovland" <steingrd at ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
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> "Bryce C. Mason" <bmason at rand.org> writes:
>
> > 1) a function which returns the number of elements in a list
> > 2) a function which takes a list and an index and returns a zero when
that
> > list index is out of range.
>
> I think you're looking for len(), a built in function.
>
> >>> x = [1,2,3]
> >>> len(x)
> 3
>
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