Print the last longest string PYTHON-CodePudding

I'm currently facing the problem of not being able to print the last longest string. Strings example:

banica
pizza
kiufte

The first and the third are same length, but I want the last longest string.

def longest(list1):
    longest_list = max(len(elem) for elem in list1)
    return longest_list
somelist=[]
while True:

    s = input()

    if s == "END":
        break
    somelist.append(s)
longest_string = max(somelist, key=len)
print(longest_string)

CodePudding user response：

I don`t know, what exactly you are trying to achieve, but as

longest_string = max(somelist, key=len)

gives you the first element with max length, you can just reverse the list, and get the last:

longest_string = max(somelist[::-1], key=len)

CodePudding user response：

This will work as you want :

    def longest(list1):
    longest_list = max(len(elem) for elem in list1)
    return longest_list
somelist=[]
while True:

    s = input()

    if s == "END":
        break
    somelist.append(s)
longest_string = max(somelist[::-1], key=len)
print(longest_string)

CodePudding user response：

To employ your longest() function:

longest_length = longest(somelist)
longest_string = [s for s in somelist if len(s) == longest_length][-1]

(Index [-1] extracts the last element.)