len() and __len__

[Hans Nowak]

Chris Liechti wrote:

> but you can do
> >>> listoflength = map(len, somelist)
> 
> which isn't that simple with __len__():
> 
> >>> listoflength = []
> >>> for x in somelist:
> ...     listoflength.append(x.__len__())

Or just

>>> map(lambda x: x.__len__(), ["foo", "bar", "bogus"])
[3, 3, 5]

I agree that len() is cleaner though.

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