How do you find the length of an element of a list?

[jefsummers]

for x in range(len(a)): 
    print a[x]

Quick point that may help understanding. Whenever you are using range(len(xxx)) there is always a better way. In this case

for element in a:

gives you element, which is each item in the list. Get the len of element and append it to a second list that is your output. So, you need to define that second output list, change your loop, and return the output list.