How do I get the number of elements in a list

Question

Consider the following:

items = []
items.append("apple")
items.append("orange")
items.append("banana")

# FAKE METHOD:
items.amount()  # Should return 3

How do I get the number of elements in the list items?

Answer 1

items = []
items.append("apple")
items.append("orange")
items.append("banana")

len(items)   #use the len function to get the size of the list

Output

3

len function is in-built function in Python, and returns the size of the list.