Find max length of name

Question

Find max length of the name

names=['abcdg','hdksuoh','ar']

Answer 1

Amol Bhandekar
If you use the max function on the names list with len as the key, as in my 1st post, it will return the longest name in the list, not the length of that name. You can then just use the len() function on the name to get the length of that longest name if you also want it.

longest_name = max(names, key=len)
len_of_longest _name = len(longest_name)

If you want to loop through the names and get both the longest name and its length at the same time;

longest = ('', 0)

for name in names:
if len(name) > longest[1]:
longest = name, len(name)

print(*longest)

Answer 2

there are two ways :
1.using loop

2. max(names, key=len)

Answer 3

Try;
max(names, key=len)

Answer 4

Let me correct I have tried like this

new_list=[]
for i in names:
new_list.append(len(i))
print(max(new_list))

How to print the names belongs the list?

Answer 5

Hey Thanks man :)

Answer 6

Thanks, Chaotic Dawg I know about max function is there any other way?

Answer 7

You could loop through the elements of the list and check the length of each, saving the longest.

p.s. this is basically what the max() function will do anyhow, given the len function as the key function to use.