Length of longest word in a list

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Although:

max(len(w) for w in words)

does kind of “read” easier – you’ve got the overhead of a generator.

While:

len(max(words, key=len))

can optimise away with the key using builtins and since len is normally a very efficient op for strings, is going to be faster…

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