[Tutor] Finding the shortest word in a list of words

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

Hello tutors,
I need to find the shortest / longest word(s) in a sequence of words. I've
done this and it works, but I'm wondering whether this is a good way:
>>> words = "man woman children he".split()
>>> words
['man', 'woman', 'children', 'he']
>>> lens = [len(word) for word in words]
>>> lens
[3, 5, 8, 2]
>>> for word in words:
...     if len(word) == min(lens): print word
...
he
>>>


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الغزالي
"No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth"

Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington

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