TAKE A LIST OF WORDS AND RETURN THE LONGEST WORD AND THE LENGTH OF THE LONGEST WORD¶

In [2]:
def find_longest_word(words_list):
    word_len = []
    for n in words_list:
        word_len.append((len(n), n))
    word_len.sort()
    return word_len[-1][0], word_len[-1][1]
result = find_longest_word(["apple", "samsung", "oneplus"])

print("\nLongest word: ",result[1])
print("Length of the longest word: ",result[0])

Longest word:  samsung
Length of the longest word:  7

REMOVING THE nTH INDEX FROM A NON EMPTY STRING¶

In [3]:
def remove_char(str,n):
    first_part = str[:n]
    last_part = str[n+1:]
    return first_part + last_part

print(remove_char('delicious', 5))
print(remove_char('delicious', 8))
print(remove_char('delicious', 2))

delicous
deliciou
deicious

TO GET A LAST PART OF STRING BEFOE A SPECIFIED CHARACTER¶

In [4]:
str = "https://www.python.exercise.com/programming.knowledging."

print(str.split('.', 1)[0])
print(str.split('/', 1)[0])

https://www
https:

REMOVE SPACES FROM A STRING¶

In [13]:
string = "do not play outside in the sun for a long time"
modified = string.replace(" ","")
print(modified)

donotplayoutsideinthesunforalongtime

SORT A STRING IN LEXICOGRAPHICALLY¶

In [14]:
list_one = ["gum", "tooth", "enamel", "dentist", "braces"]
print("the original list before sorting is:", list_one)
list_one.sort()
print("the original list after sorting is:", list_one)

the original list before sorting is: ['gum', 'tooth', 'enamel', 'dentist', 'braces']
the original list after sorting is: ['braces', 'dentist', 'enamel', 'gum', 'tooth']