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

A short addition to what has been said so it can handle empty lists too:

def list_depth(list_of_lists):
    if isinstance(list_of_lists, list):
        if(len(list_of_lists) == 0):
            depth = 1
        else:
            depth = 1 + max([list_depth(l) for l in list_of_lists])
    else:
        depth = 0
    return depth