Hi Hoffman, It is often useful to use the "for" construct to process items in a list. e.g.:
>>> list1 = [ 'spam!', 2, ['Ted', 'Rock']] >>> for item in list: ... print item spam! 2 ['Ted', 'Rock'] If you pass a list to the len() function, it will return the number of elenents in the list. e.g.: >>> x = ['a', 'b', 'c'] >>> len(x) 3 Now if you pass len() a string it will return the length of a string: >>> y = 'hello' >>> len(y) 5 Given your list below, len() will return what you're looking for when it encounters the third element of the list, but won't for the first and second elements. One way to solve this problem is to use the type() function to figure out if your item is a string or list and use len() as appropriate. I hope this provides enough of a hint. -mtw On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0700, Hoffmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a list: list1 = [ 'spam!', 2, ['Ted', 'Rock'] > ] > and I wrote the script below: > > i = 0 > while i < len(list1): > print list1[i] > i += 1 > > Ok. This script will generate as the output each > element of the original list, one per line: > > spam! > 2 > ['Ted', 'Rock'] > > I also would like to print the length of each element > of that list: > > spam! = 1 element > 2 = 1 element > ['Ted', 'Rock'] = 2 elements > > Could anyone, please, give me some hints? > Thanks, > Hoffmann > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Matthew White - District Systems Administrator Tigard/Tualatin School District 503.431.4128 "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
