30-seconds-of-code/snippets/longest_item.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Longest item	list,string,intermediate	2019-08-20T15:27:49+03:00	2021-10-17T18:24:43+02:00

Takes any number of iterable objects or objects with a length property and returns the longest one.

• Use max() with len() as the key to return the item with the greatest length.
• If multiple items have the same length, the first one will be returned.

def longest_item(*args):
  return max(args, key = len)

longest_item('this', 'is', 'a', 'testcase') # 'testcase'
longest_item([1, 2, 3], [1, 2], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) # [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
longest_item([1, 2, 3], 'foobar') # 'foobar'