(SOLVED) Python Coding Project: Longest word

Question

Hello! Can somebody help me with this task? I cannot get the solution ☹️

Given a text as input, find and output the longest word.

Sample Input
this is an awesome text

Sample Output
awesome

Answer 1

Gᑌᗰᗷᗩᒪᒪ ,

you have already completed nearly 60% of the python core tutorial. so you have learned everything you need to solve this task by yourself.

here some hints:

▪︎ take an input string and store it in a variable
▪︎split the string to individual words, this will result in a list
▪︎create variables that can hold a string and the corresponding length of the string and initialize them (1)
▪︎use a for loop to iterate through the list of words
▪︎get length of each word that is given in the loop variable
▪︎if length of current word is longer than the ones stored in the variable put new longest word and length in variables
▪︎after loop is finished you can output the variable that contains the longest word

(1) instead of using 2 variables you can use a list to store the word and the corresponding length.

Answer 2

Calvin Thomas Thank you, didn't knew about max() key parameter.

Answer 3

I'm not sure why people enjoy using complex codes to explain concepts to beginners. No disrespect to you, Calvin, but #2 up there only complicates issues for a newbie. Pythonic principles state that SIMPLE IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN COMPLEX!! 😁

word = "This is an awesome text"
longest_word = ""

splitted = word.split()

for word in splitted:
if (len(word)) > len(longest_word):
longest_word = word

print(longest_word)

If you're getting input from a user, then simply save it into a variable like 'word' above and use it.

Answer 4

Lothar Thank you so much, I'm so glad you helped me 😊

Yes, I know I've completed 60% of course and know everything I need, I just tried to write normal code for, like, 20 minutes, I tried to remember all kind of things I know, but no result. Maybe, I was just bored, tired or lazy. Anyways, thanks for you feedback 😃

Answer 5

Chuks AJ I don't know why I'm answering after 6 months, but late is better than never.

I'm not beginner 😅
And I was not beginner back then too 😅😅
I just didn't practice for a VERY long time.

Answer 6

Abhay Almost nothing

Answer 7

Here is the code that I came up with intuitively.
But, is putting a for loop inside an if statement "pythonic", or does it have problems ?

txt = input()
text = txt.split(" ")
for w in text :
if len(w) == max(len(w) for w in text) :
print (w)

Answer 8

What code you have written so far ?

Answer 9

Nicolas Leonetti I think everything is ok with your code, just put a "break" after "print(w)", so it doesn't do necessary comparations

Answer 10

Nikolaas Brems actually pretty interesting 🤔

Answer 11

txt = input('Yor text: ')

#your code goes here
w = txt.split(' ')
w.sort(key=len)
print(w[-1])

Answer 12

Indeed ! Thanks for the advice !

Answer 13

I'm very proud i solved this one on my own, but after reading this page, I felt stupid. Seems I have a tendency to make stuff needlessly complicated...

Here's what I came up with:

txt = input()
WordLengthDict = {}
WordLength = []
words = txt.split()

for word in words:
WordLengthDict [len(word)] = word
WordLength.append(len(word))

Longest = max(WordLength)
LongestWord = WordLengthDict.get(int(Longest))

print(LongestWord)

It works, but it's far from elegant xD

Answer 14

This is what I did
txt = input()
splitted = txt.split()
longest_word = [word for word in splitted if (len(word) == max(len(word) for word in splitted)) ]
print("".join(longest_word))

Answer 15

I solved this problem in this way:

txt = input()

result = sorted(txt.split(' '), key=len)
print(result[-1])

Answer 16

My way: for whom has basic knowledge

txt = input()
splitted = txt.split(' ')
txt_len=[]

for word in splitted :
txt_len.append(len(word))

print(splitted[txt_len.index(max(txt_len))])