Okay, I give up.
What's the best way to count number of items in a list?
For instance,
a=[[1,2,4],4,5,[2,3]]
I want to know how many items are there in a (answer should be 7 - I don't
want it to be 4)
I tried:
b=len([x for y in a for x in y])
That doesn't work because you would get an iteration over non-sequence.
I tried:
g=lambda x: (1,len(x))[isinstance(x,(list,tuple,dict))]
b=sum(lambda(x) for x in a)
and that didn't work because I get a TypeError from the len function (don't
know why)
I can, of course:
i=0
for x in a:
if isinstance(x,(list,tuple,dict)):
i += len(x)
else:
i += 1
but that's so C-like...
Thanks,
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