How can I find the longest word , and print it in python?

Question

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

Sample Input
this is an awesome text

Sample Output
awesome

Answer 1

# Function to print the longest
# word in given sentence
def largestWord(s):

# Sort the words in increasing
# order of their lengths
s = sorted(s, key = len)

# Print last word
print(s[-1])

# Driver Code
if __name__ == "__main__":

# Given string
s = "this is an awesome text"

# Split the string into words
l = list(s.split(" "))

largestWord(l)

Answer 2

Vishal G
Nice, but what if there are two words with the same length?

Answer 3

1) Split the string with the text to a list with the texts words as elements, here called txt (lst = txt.split()).

2) Find a way to get the max length for the words in the list (maxlength = max(map(len, lst))).

3) Find way to pick out all the words whos length is equal to the max length (res = [wd for wd in lst if len(wd) == maxlenth]).

4) print the result (print(res)).

Answer 4

@ Per Bratthammar
Whats the solution?