PYTHON

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)

python longest list in list

def longest(list1):
    longest_list = max(len(elem) for elem in list1)
    return longest_list

how to get more than one longest string in a list python

words = ['hello','sample,'word','about','hey','longes','mikeys']
# the code:
longestWord = max(words,key=len)				# will get the longest word
length = len(longestWord)						# will get the length of the longest word
long_word = [i for i in words if len(i) == length]	# list comprehension thatt will get all the longest word in the list