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## Exercise:
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## Define a function that counts how many elements the given list has.
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def count_elements(given_list):

    count = 0

    for element in given_list:
        count += 1

    return count

## To test:
print "[]", count_elements([])
print "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]", count_elements([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])