I'm having difficulty in sorting a list of strings in a descending order in terms of the length of words. Please help

Answer 1

Consider the following example

lst = ['r','ris','ri','rishi','rish']

#for ascending order
sorted(lst,key=len)

#for decending order
sorted(lst,key=len)[::-1]

Answer 2

You can also do it by adding another argument to the call of sort or sorted: reverse=True

Answer 3

Please mention the programming language

Answer 4

Rishi Anand it worked. Thanks alot

Answer 5

Rishi Anand python

Answer 6

If you can use this example to explain to me I'll appreciate.
Countries=["Kenya", "Australia", "Canada", "USA"]
I've been using countries.sort(key=len) to try and sort the list by length in a descending order