How do I find the longest word in a list

Question

I tried this:

sentence = input("Sentence without punctuation: ")


lst = [sentence]
longestString = max(lst, key=len)
print(longestString)


print(len(longestString))

But my output is this:

sentence = input("Sentence without punctuation: ")


lst = [sentence]
longestString = max(lst, key=len)
print(longestString)


print(len(longestString))

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '21 at 19:19

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If you are trying to break your sentence into words, instead of this

lst = [sentence]

you'd instead want

lst = sentence.split()

Otherwise you are making a list that has a single element, which is your entire string.

answered Jan 27 '21 at 19:19

Cory Kramer

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '21 at 19:20

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Simply replace lst = [sentence] with lst = sentence.split()

answered Jan 27 '21 at 19:20

Aziz Sonawalla

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How do I find the longest word in a list

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