In this task, you are given an input list. A list contains several comma-separated items written within brackets. You need to return the count of all the alphabetical elements in the given list. Return 0 if no alphabetical element in the list
['1703', 'A', '521', '823', 't', 'j', 'y', '1459', 'j', 'J', '3569', '5759', '8469', 'M', '499', '5559', '9167', 'P', 'a']