How to get the size of a list in Python?

Question

items = []

items.append("apple")

items.append("orange")

items.append("banana")



# FAKE METHOD::

items.amount()  # Should return 3

How do I get the number of elements in the list?

Answer 1

The len() function can be used with a lot of types in Python - both built-in types and library types.

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

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