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PYTHON TUTORIALS » File » Loop through »

Get the longest line


f = open('/etc/motd', 'r')
longest = 0
allLines = f.readlines()
f.close()
for line in allLines:
    linelen = len(line.strip())
    if linelen > longest:
        longest = linelen

print longest

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