How to get the longest word from a list or string.

Question

#I tried up to getting length of each word..
txt=input()
print("your input is--"+txt)
def words(txt):
return (txt.split())
#print(words(txt))
wordss=words(txt)
print(wordss)
def lenth():
for line in wordss:
if "\n" in line:
print(line+" -- " +str(len(line)-1))
else:
print(line+" -- " +str(len(line)))
lenth()
#print(max(str(line)))
"""
It prints ==>

your input is--how to get the longest word from the list or a sentence
['how', 'to', 'get', 'the', 'longest', 'word', 'from', 'the', 'list', 'or', 'a', 'sentence']
how -- 3
to -- 2
get -- 3
the -- 3
longest -- 7
word -- 4
from -- 4
the -- 3
list -- 4
or -- 2
a -- 1
sentence -- 8
"""

Answer 1

If you want to print them in order from longest to shortest, you could do this.

words = sorted(input().split(), key=len, reverse=True)
for word in words:
print(word, "len =", len(word))

Answer 2

If you just want to get the longest word (without representations)

Just print that string.

If this is a challenge (maybe not), you dont need representations, you can just print the string right away.
https://code.sololearn.com/cQ95W1GB02Dg/?ref=app

Answer 3

max here is not a function, it is a variable that holds the string that has greatest value temporarily.

It is iterating each string, if a string length is greater than the previous ones then that will be the new "max" value.

This is what it looks like using max function:
print(max(input().split(), key=len))

Answer 4

Dude how we do it with out max function

Answer 5

Ok i didn't even look my bad
Tnx