[Tutor] using the reduce function

[Karl Pflästerer]

On 23 Jan 2004, don arnold <- darnold02 at sprynet.com wrote:

> I may be off-base here (since I've never used reduce() before), but can't
> you just do this:

>>>> reduce(lambda x,y: max(x,len(y)),['123456','23','1234567','1'],0)

Sure you can.  There are multiple solutions possible; which one you
choose may be a matter of taste and simply the fact that in that moment
I didn't thouhgt of Python having `max'.  So I wrote it myself.


   Karl
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