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

Question

How can I get the number of elements of a list?

Ex- 

    items = []

    items.append("one")

    items.append("two")

    items.append("three")

Answer 1

@Shubham,To get the number of elements in the list you can use the len() function :

items = []

items.append("one")

items.append("two")

items.append("three")

len(items)

 Output- 3

Answer 2

You can use the len() function to count the elements in the list:-

>>> someList=[]

>>> print len(someList)

0

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