Python count elements in list

Question

I am trying to find a simple way of getting a count of the number of elements in a list:

MyList = ["a", "b", "c"]

I want to know there are 3 elements in this list.

Answer 1

To count elements in the list you can use len() function below is the code:-

>>> someList=[] 

>>> print len(someList) 

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