What is the built-in function len() for?

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Geek Boy Staff asked 2 years ago

What is the built-in function len() for?
a. The len() function returns information about the memory used by a given object.
b. The len() function returns the number of elements in a collection/sequence.
c. Python does not have a built-in function callled len().
d. The len() function returns a list of the attributes and methods of a given object.

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Geek Boy Staff answered 2 years ago

b. The len() function returns the number of elements in a collection/sequence.
Explanation:

len(s): Return the length (the number of items) of an object. The argument may be a sequence (such as a string, bytes, tuple, list, or range) or a collection (such as a dictionary, set, or frozen set).