----- Original Message ----- From: "Harvest T. Moon" <h4rv3st.m00n at gmx.net> Subject: Q: elements in a list [newbie] > 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()) f = file.readlines() l = len(f) Thar ya go.