Answers for "Write a program to find the longest word in the list Python"

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how to find the longest string in a list in python

a_list = ["a_string", "the_longest_string", "string"]
longest_string = max(a_list, key=len)
print(longest_string)
Posted by: Guest on April-17-2021
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get longest shortest word in list python

words = ["alpha","omega","up","down","over","under","purple","red","blue","green"]

#GET LONGEST WORD
max(words, key=len)
>>> 'purple'

#GET SHORTEST WORD
min(words, key=len)
>>> 'up'
Posted by: Guest on May-01-2021
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python longest word in string

def find_longest_word(word_list):  
    longest_word =  max(word_list, key=len)
    return longest_word
Posted by: Guest on November-02-2020
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Write a python program to find the longest words.

def longestword(filename):
	with open(filename,'r+') as f:
		words = f.read().split()
		max_len_word = max(words,key=len)
		max_len = len(max(words,key=len))		
		print('maximum lenth word in file :',max_len_word)
		print('lenth is : ',max_len)

longestword('file1.txt')

or 

def longest_word(filename):
    with open(filename, 'r') as infile:
              words = infile.read().split()
    max_len = len(max(words, key=len))
    return [word for word in words if len(word) == max_len]

print(longest_word('file1.txt'))
Posted by: Guest on November-29-2020

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