Width of Text entity

I have a list a = [‘apple’, ‘ball’, ‘cat’] in GhPython where each element is list is a text entity from rhino. I want a list with width of each text entity from list ‘a’. I used “rs.cooerceguid” to convert each string to a Guide, so I can use it to get a bounding box. But rs.cooerceguid gives me “none” as output everytime I run it. What am I doing wrong in this or is there an alternative method to find width of text entity

You mean the Length of a given item/string I assume. Like:

This worked, thank you so much