[Tutor] Re: list comprehensions

[Prahlad Vaidyanathan]

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 Tim Wilson spewed into the ether:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm wondering if it's possible to implement the following function using
> list comprehensions. It's not really a speed issue because it runs in a
> split second using the built-in dictionary on my Linux box.

Well, if speed is not an issue, this should work :

"""
def filterLongest(words) :
    maxlen = max([len(word) for word in words])
    return [ w for w in words if len(w) == maxlen ]
"""

    HTH,

pv.
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