Trouble in printing length of this list-CodePudding

I'm trying to print the length of this list, but whenever I'm trying to print the output is 1. The compiler is treating whole list as single element. So how can I get length of this list?

import random
names_string = input("Give me everybody's names, separated by a comma. ")
names = names_string.split(", ")
print(len(names))

This displays

Give me everybody's names, separated by a comma. Yo,Gh,Kl
1

CodePudding user response：

Your input text is separated by commas with no spaces. However, your code splits on ', ', a comma followed by a space. Whenever you split on a string which doesn't occur in the input string, the result is a list containing just the input string.

Therefore, you should do names_string.split(',').

CodePudding user response：

Your problem is that you are splitting the names_string by , which if you look carefully includes a comma AND a space, but when you input your data "Yo,Gh,Kl" you didn't include spaces after the commas. When split() was called, no instances of , were found.