String splitting question

[Thomas Guettler]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:03:11 +0200, Max M wrote:

> William Park wrote:
>> Jim Shady <iamshady at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>abcd/df/a/iiwk/abcdefghijkl/b/c
>>>
>>>I need to get the longest string between the /s of the string. 

[cut]

> s = 'abcd/df/a/iiwk/abcdefghijkl/b/c' print max([(len(sub), sub) for sub in s.split('/')])[-1]

looks like perl

 thomas

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