ronrsr wrote: > it looks like the len() function is the one I want. > > for: len(result) - i get 248, > > but for len(result[0]) or len(result[1]) i always get 0.
that's a bit surprising, because both items are tuples that contain exactly one item: >> (('Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid',), ('Agriculture; Sustainable >> Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood >> Development, Birth Defects; Toxic Chemicals',), </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list