how to see what number element is in a list code example

Example 1: how to find the amount of numbers in a list on python

>>> someList=[]
>>> print len(someList)
0

Example 2: how to count things in a list python

list.count(element)

list1 = ['red', 'green', 'blue', 'orange', 'green', 'gray', 'green']
color_count = list1.count('green')
print('The count of color: green is ', color_count)