Question

I’m just starting with programming. I have a list of a few strings and now I need to print the biggest (in length) one.
So I first want to just print the lengths of elements. I was trying things like this:

l = ("xxxxxxxxx", "yyyy","zz")

for i in range(len(l)):

So how do I do it?

Answer 1

l = ("xxxxxxxxx", "yyyy","zz")
print(max(l, key=len))

First of all you don’t have a list, you have a tuple. this code will work for any sequence, however; both lists and tuples are sequences (as well as strings, sets, etc). So, the max function takes a key argument, that is used to sort the elements of an iterable. So, from all elements of l will be selected the one having the maximum length.