Why can't I find `len(list)` in Python?

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Published on 2010-03-09T11:18:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 11:21 UTC
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I'm new to Python. I have a method that begins:

def foo(self, list):
    length = len(list)

I've called len() successfully in other cases, but here I get:

TypeError: object of type 'type' has no len()

How do I convince Python that this object passed in is a list? What am I missing?

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