Question

I have a dictionary where each keys have multiple values.
I am trying to count the total number of values.
For example:

key: 1, value: abc, bcd, egf
key: 2, value: asj,asfah,afhs,jhsafh

so, the total number of values are 3+4 = 7
What is the pythonic way to get this count.
Thanks

Answer 1

How about:

sum(len(val) for val in dictionary.itervalues())

Note that this uses a generator instead of creating a temporary list of lengths.