how to assign function output to variable

Question

im trying to get the list that is outputted by the function and assign the list to a variable so i can use the len method on it but I don't know how

def count(list):
return ([i for item in list for i in item.split()])

list = [""]

Answer 1

Does this answer your question?

def count(item_list):
    return ([i for item in item_list for i in item.split()])

list_returned_by_count = count(item_list)

Then, you can use the len method on it.

len(list_returned_by_count)