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Python

Posted by Nelson Mwirumubi
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Nelson Mwirumubi
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 785 Points

Longest word in a list!

Write a function called longest which will take a string of space separated words and will return the longest one.

For example: longest("So Super Fly") => "Super"

1 Answer

Krishna Pratap Chouhan
Krishna Pratap Chouhan
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I am sure Nelson that you gave it a fair try but please do share your code or otherwise mention how much help you need regarding the matter. As per the understanding of community forums, it is suggested to not feed the code.

Here i'll share approach and the final solution as well.

1> If you haven't tried, then this is how you can proceed.

take the string as function argument;

split the string using split() function and split would return the list of all the words separated by space.

traverse through the list and find out the string with maximum length. You will need to store the information in some variable.

2> Here is the final solution.

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def longest(string):
    tokens = string.split();
    max_length = 0;
    max_word="";
    for token in tokens:
        if len(token)>max_length:
            max_length = len(token)
            max_word = token
    return max_word;
Nelson Mwirumubi
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Nelson Mwirumubi
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 785 Points

Thanks so much, it just worked well.