count letters in python code example

Example 1: pyton count number of character in a word

# Count number of characters in a string (word)
a = "some string"
print len(a)       # 11

Example 2: check how many letters in a string python

#use the built in function len()

len("hello")

#or you can count the characters in a string variable

a = "word"
len(a)