How can I get the count of a list in Python

Question

I am trying to find a simple way of getting a count of the number of elements in a list:

MyList = ["x", "y", "z"]

I want to know there are 3 elements in this list.

Answer 1

len()

>>> mylist=[]
>>> print len(mylist)
0

Answer 2

n=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print(len(n))

=9