Simple question, how do you tell how many items in a list?

[Vlastimil Brom]

2008/7/11, Alex Bryan <alexnbryan at gmail.com>:
>
> I am just wondering how you get an integer value for how many items there
> are in a list, preferably w/o a for loop.
>
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Use len

>>> len([1,2,3])
3
>>>

vbr
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