[python] How to get length of a list of lists in python

This saves the data in a list of lists.

text = open("filetest.txt", "r")
data = [ ]
for line in text:
    data.append( line.strip().split() )

print "number of lines ", len(data)
print "number of columns ", len(data[0])

print "element in first row column two ", data[0][1]