longest sequence

[Anton Vredegoor]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:53:55 -0600, "Mark McEahern"
<marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:

>Thanks to everyone who replied.  The following test code generates the
>following results on my Windows machine under cygwin's Python 2.2.1.  I've
>included all suggestions made in the thread so far and modified the
>longest_dsu and longest_max functions with Tim's advice above:
>
>         longest_for --> 0.14 sec
>         longest_dsu --> 0.25 sec
>         longest_max --> 0.30 sec
>             longest --> 0.40 sec

[snip the code]

Thanks for posting the test-code. This makes it easy to compare
different solutions. This one is currently fastest here:

def longest_func(*args):
    L=map(len,args)
    return args[L.index(max(L))]

Regards,
	Anton.