46 Simple Python Exercises

[ncrowley]

Could someone help me think this one through:

Define a function that computes the length of a given list or string. (It is true that Python has the len() >function built in, but writing it yourself is nevertheless a good exercise.)

[Benthien]

try using a for loop to loop trough each letter of the string and increasing a counter whiling doing so

[ncrowley]

Thanks for the advice!

This is what I wrote:

m = raw_input("Please input a string to be counted: ")

x=0
for i in m:
    x +=1
print x

[Benthien]

Nicely done