# pandas.Series.str.len

`Series.str.``len`()

  Compute the length of each element in the Series/Index. The element may be a sequence (such as a string, tuple or list) or a collection (such as a dictionary).

  Returns:

  Series or Index of int

  > A Series or Index of integer values indicating the length of each element in the Series or Index.

  See also

  `str.len`
    Python built-in function returning the length of an object.
  `Series.size`
    Returns the length of the Series.

  Examples

  Returns the length (number of characters) in a string. Returns the number of entries for dictionaries, lists or tuples.

      >>> s = pd.Series(['dog',
      ...                 '',
      ...                 5,
      ...                 {'foo' : 'bar'},
      ...                 [2, 3, 5, 7],
      ...                 ('one', 'two', 'three')])
      >>> s
      0                  dog
      1
      2                    5
      3       {'foo': 'bar'}
      4         [2, 3, 5, 7]
      5    (one, two, three)
      dtype: object
      >>> s.str.len()
      0    3.0
      1    0.0
      2    NaN
      3    1.0
      4    4.0
      5    3.0
      dtype: float64

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