Longest word

Created on May 19, 2020 by Julien Palard

Write a function giving the longest word in a given text.

Your function should be named longest_word, take a single argument text and return a string which should be the longest word in the given text.

Beware: the given text can span several lines.

Example

>>> longest_word("We want a SHRUBBERY")
"SHRUBBERY"
>>> longest_word("Shrubberies are great")
"Shrubberies"

Advice

Read the documentation of the len builtin function.

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