How do i return the longest word from a list

Question

E.g. "This is a fine statement" I want to output to be "statement" which is the longest word after in the list after splitting it

Answer 1

Now here's the manual way:

li = [...]
# Note: This masks the max() function
max = [""]
for x in li:
if len(x) > len(max[0]): max = [x]
elif len(x) == len(max[0]): max.append(x)
print(max)

# Hope this helps

Answer 2

print(max(input().split(), key=len))

Answer 3

s = "google is cool until avbfgrthgjwtfkd"
d = {len(i):i for i in s.split()}
print(d[max(d)])

Answer 4

Any attempt from your side would be great

Answer 5

if words in the string do not repeat and length of words are not the same using dictionary is better

Answer 6

Azad m. A. Hi! When you write:
max(input().split(' '))
you compare the the value of the strings, not the lenght of the words. This means for example that ”q” > ”aaa”. So with ”aaa q” as input your code gives 1 as a result.

Answer 7

Shadoff Your code won't work if there are multiple words having the maximum length.

Answer 8

Find all words in the list with the most number of letters:

https://code.sololearn.com/cAMR8D1Qq0iX/?ref=app

Answer 9

Calvin Thomas;
probably the one starts with the highest order...anyway, that was a good point for them to expand the code, via including further conditions. Simply, throwing away any duplications found, there are several ways to do that:-
such as turning the list to a SET and employing the higher orders competancing.......etc.

Answer 10

Here’s a way to use a dictionary in this context.

The keys are the word length and the value is a list where all the words with that word leghth becomes elements in the list:

https://code.sololearn.com/c49r3osFbDQn/?ref=app

Answer 11

shadoff;
your last print, how it works?
I know that it works, but how d was used twice?

Answer 12

or
print(len(max(input().split(' '))))
?