Python: Finding The Longest/Shortest Sentence In A Random Paragraph?

Question

I am using Python 2.7 and need 2 functions to find the longest and shortest sentence (in terms of word count) in a random paragraph. For exampl

Answer 1

You need a way to split the paragraph into sentences and to count words in a sentence. You could use nltk package for both:

from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize # $ pip install nltk

sentences = sent_tokenize(paragraph)
word_count = lambda sentence: len(word_tokenize(sentence))
print(min(sentences, key=word_count)) # the shortest sentence by word count
print(max(sentences, key=word_count)) # the longest sentence by word count