On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:27 -0800, Tony Cappellini wrote: > > > I want to use a list comp to get the length of the longest string in a > list, but can't quite get the syntax right. > > l1=['abc', 'abcde', 'abcfdtea'] > > longest=0 > [x for x in l1 if len(x) > longest]
Use max to get the longest longest = max([len(x) for x in ll]) With versions >= 2.4 you can omit the [] > > The problem is I can't add the true clause to the if statement in a > list comp as in > if len(x) > longest: > longest = len(x) > > > Is this possible using a list comp? > > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
