🔒 why the the function len giving me this answer

[pliant pond]

        data[1].append(second)
        data[2].append('-' * len(second))
        data[3].append((' ' * max(len(data[0]), len(data[1]), len(data[2]))) + answer)

        print(data[2], len(data[2]))```



output
```858
['-----'] 1
948
['-----', '-----'] 2```<——————————————— shouldnt the len() give me the number of ‘-‘ in the output . so it shouldnt be 2 it should be the number o ‘-‘ which in this case is  about 5

[hexed blaze]

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[wary glade]

It's printing the length of data[2], which currently has 2 items in it.

It doesn't care about the length of those items, just how many there are

If you wanted the length of one of the items in data[2] you'd get the length of data[2][0] or data[2][1] depending on wether you want the first or the second string

[radiant aspen]

len() depending on where is used, have different way of counting output; I'm assuming data[2] is a list with elements (where data itself is an another list and you have the ['-----'] list inside the data list

[pliant pond]

o ok ill try that thanks

it works thanks

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