boost::python::list length

Question

Is there any way to calculate length of list passed from python to C++? I want do do something like this, but list class lacks length (or anything similar) method:

class Awesome{
  public:
    void awesomeMethod(const boost::python::list& list_of_something){
      list_of_something.length() // suprisingly there's no such method
    } 
};

Answer 1

Like Python, you should use the free function len() to get the length. Try

boost::python::len(list_of_something)

Answer 2

It's called len, not length, and it's not a method but a free-standing function (Python does not use length methods, but length protocol and len() function).

return boost::python::len(list_of_something);