Finding the shortest string in a string of words in python

Question

I want to write a function that would return the length of the shortest string in a string of words. Sample: \"I eat apples\" would return 1 since \"I\" is the shorted string. T

Answer 1

You can use min with a key function:

# split the string by spaces and pick the min based on the lenght of splitted string
# Example:

string = "I eat apples"
final = min(string.split(), key = lambda x: len(x))

print(final)
# >>> I