Как узнать количество символов в строке?

 >>> import nltk
 >>> from nltk.corpus import PlaintextCorpusReader
 >>> corpus_root = './'
 >>> newcorpus = PlaintextCorpusReader(corpus_root, '.*')
 """
 if the ./ dir contains the file my_corpus.txt, then you 
 can view say all the words it by doing this 
 """
 >>> newcorpus.words('my_corpus.txt')