python how to count all elements in a list

1List = ["Elephant", "Snake", "Penguin"]
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3print(len(List))
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5#	With the 'len' function Python counts the amount of elements 
6#	in a list (The length of the list).
7#	In this case the output is '3' because there are 3 elements in the list. 

1mylist = ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr"]
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3print(len(mylist))
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5# output 6