Exercise 38
Write a Python program that takes as input a string of characters 's' and returns the longest word found in 's'.
Solution
def longest_word(s):
# Split string into words
words = s.split()
# Initialize variables to store longest word and its length
longest = ''
longest_len = 0
# Iterate through words in list
for word in words:
# Check if current word is longer than current longest word
if len(word) > longest_len:
longest = word
longest_len = len(word)
return longest
# Example usage
s = "Python is the most popular programming language!"
longest = longest_word(s)
print(longest) # output: 'programming'
Younes Derfoufi
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