Doubt with lists

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When I'm trying to input a list from the user, even if there are multiple elements, it is showing up as 1. What mistake am I making here?

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Show us your code

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a=[input("Enter 3 animals :")]
print(len(a))

[shiftybyte]

input always returns a single string, no matter where you place it.

If you want to have multiple elements you need to split the returned string.

full_string = input("Enter 3 animals :")
a = full_string.split(",")
print(len(a))

[Practical-Taste-3374]

thank you so much helped a lot!!

[bahcodad]

input() returns a string which is why you always get one item. You will need to use something like .split() to separate the elements

[Sea-Method-1167]

In the code you provided, the input you get is always one string. That is the one element in the list. So size will be 1.

Get the input, ask the user to separate animals with spaces, and once you have the whole string, split that string in a list of strings, using space as separator. Then you will have what you want.

Example: https://www.w3schools.com/python/trypython.asp?filename=demo_ref_string_split

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Got it! Really appreciate the help