title: Finding the amount of characters of all words in a list in Python
body: <p>I'm trying to find the total number of characters in the list of words, specifically this list:</p>
  
  <pre><code>words = ["alpha","omega","up","down","over","under","purple","red","blue","green"]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried doing: </p>
  
  <pre><code>print "The size of the words in words[] is %d." % len(words)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that just tells me how many words are in the list, which is 10. </p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated!</p>
  
  <p>Sorry, I meant to mention that the class I'm doing this for is on the topic of for loops, so I was wondering if I had to implement a forloop to give me an answer, which is why the for loop tags are there.</p>