└── Find N Longest Strings in a Python List


/Find N Longest Strings in a Python List:
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 1 | # A function that finds n longest words in a list of strings
 2 | def find_longest(strings, n):
 3 |     l = len(strings)
 4 |     # If n is more or equal to the list length, return the whole list.
 5 |     if n >= l:
 6 |         return strings
 7 |     else:
 8 |         sorted_strings = sorted(strings, key=len)
 9 |         return sorted_strings[-n:]
10 | 
11 | 
12 | # Example run
13 | names = ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "David", "Emmanuel", "Frank", "Gabriel"]
14 | 
15 | print(find_longest(names, 3))
16 | 


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