Q: elements in a list [newbie]

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <95cbfs$gu0iq$1 at ID-22517.news.dfncis.de>,
Harvest T. Moon <h4rv3st.m00n at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>i hope this is not some kind of 'very stupid' question, how can i find out
>how many elements are in a list?
>(generated by file.readlines())

len()

See the section on built-in functions in the Python docs.
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