Python/strings/longest_word_in_sentence.py
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def longest_word(sentence: str) -> str:
"""
Finds the longest word in a sentence.
>>> longest_word("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog")
'jumped'
>>> longest_word("Python is amazing")
'amazing'
>>> longest_word("")
''
>>> longest_word("a")
'a'
>>> longest_word("A tie between words")
'between'
>>> longest_word("All words are same length")
'All'
>>> longest_word("Multiple words with the same longest length")
'Multiple'
>>> longest_word("Trailing spaces at the end ")
'Trailing'
>>> longest_word(" Leading spaces at the start")
'Leading'
>>> longest_word("Special characters !@#$%^&*() should be ignored")
'characters'
"""
words = sentence.split()
return max(words, key=len) if words else ""
if __name__ == "__main__":
from doctest import testmod
testmod()