Why does this code not work only in one of the test cases?

Question

In the coding challenge "Longest Word" I made this code:

txt = input()

list = []

word_list = txt.split(" ")
for word in word_list:
list.append(word.index(word[-1]))

print(word_list[list.index(max(list))])

Can someone tell me why this didn't work in only the second test case?

Answer 1

You say index of s and gives you first s it finds which is at index 3
So your program thinks its 4 letter word

Answer 2

a simple and pythonic way of getting the longest word of a string can be done like this:

inp = input().split()
print(max(inp, key = len)) # 'key = len' together with max() returns the longest word

Answer 3

Expected output: perspiciatis (12 characters)
My output: accusantium (11 characters)

This is from python core.

Answer 4

Thats because perspiciatis have two s
you don't get the last index work with length.

Answer 5

Oh, I get it.

Thanks.

Answer 6

You could append len(word) to your list instead of trying to deal with .index()

(And just an advice: avoid naming lists "list" – it might overwrite the build-in list())

Answer 7

Right, I'll keep that in mind from now on.

Thank you!

Answer 8

What did you get as output for the 2nd test case? Which Python course is it?