Count number strings in list

Jayesh Badgujar 0
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list = ['abcd','xyz',12,13]

I want to count several strings in the above list. How can we do that?

I used the count method but it didn't work.

How to do that?

string list python
4 Answers

We can use a list comprehension:

list = ['abcd','xyz',12,13]
num = len([x for x in list if isinstance(x, str)])
print(num)  # 2
Tim Biegeleisen0

If you want to count only strings in a list

list_one = ['abcd','xyz',12,13]
c = 0 
for i in list_one:
    if isinstance(i, str):
        c += 1
print(c)
Siva Reddy0

If it's actually a list of string numbers like the title suggests, here are a couple of ways to do it

l = ['abcd', 'xyz' , '12' , '13']

# Using try
count = 0
for s in l:
    try:
        int(s)
        count += 1
    except ValueError:
        pass
print("numbers in list:", count)

count = 0
for s in l:
    if s.isdigit():
        count += 1
print("numbers in list:", count)
Tzane0

We can also use type() to check string with list comprehension:

list = ['abcd','xyz',12,13]
print(len([x for x in list if type(x) is str]))
DecoderS0
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