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