On Jul 11, 2:53*pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.eduwrote:
Alex Bryan wrote:
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.
Read the library reference sections on built-in functions and classes.
Quite simple.
If I understand you correctly, you have a list like this:
>>list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
As you can see, the list has 4 entries.
The len() function also says that we have 4 entries.
>>len(list)
4
Now, if we wanted a particular entry, we would do this:
>>list[0]
'a'
(Remember, when calling something in a list we count zero.)
>>list[3]
'd'
Hope this helped.
David