No. Not so.
Observe, please:
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>>> import math
>>> math.sqrt(1054.12)
32.467214232206615
>>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> s
'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> len(s)
34
>>>
Have you by any chance assigned the function len to something else?
Otherwise, it should work really well. If you do help(len) in the
shell, wha dos it tell you.
Robert
Joshua Nikkel wrote:
I've
pasted the following from my python shell. Please note that the first
two lines of code are taken directly from the standard tutorial files
under section 3.1.2.
Will someone please tell me why something as basic and straightforward
as this will not work? Everything else seems to work just fine, but
not this. All I need is someway to get the length of a string...
please help,
nosh
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>>> s =
'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> len(s)
Traceback (most
recent call last):
File
"<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
len(s)
TypeError: 'str'
object is not callable
>>> s
'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>> len(s)
Traceback (most
recent call last):
File
"<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
len(s)
TypeError: 'str'
object is not callable
>>>
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