Counting depth or the deepest level a nested list goes to

Question

A have a real problem (and a headache) with an assignment...

I\'m in an introductory programming class, and I have to write a function that, given a list, will retur

Answer 1

easy with recursion

def flat(l):
    depths = []
    for item in l:
        if isinstance(item, list):
            depths.append(flat(item))
    if len(depths) > 0:
        return 1 + max(depths)
    return 1