It's me wrote:
Okay, I give up.
What's the best way to count number of items in a list [that may contain lists]?
a = [[1,2,4],4,5,[2,3]]
def iterall(seq): for item in seq: try: for subitem in iterall(item): yield subitem except TypeError: yield item
all = [x for x in iterall(a)] print len(all)
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