The longest word

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Jul 28 05:36:46 EDT 2009


>>>>> NiklasRTZ <niklasro at gmail.com> (N) wrote:

>N> Thank you. This seems to work:
>N> sorted("a AAA aa aaaaa  sdfsdfsdfsdf vv".split(' '),lambda a,b: len(a)-
>N> len(b))[-1]
>N> 'sdfsdfsdfsdf'

simpler:

sorted("a AAA aa aaaaa  sdfsdfsdfsdf vv".split(' '), key=len)[-1]
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