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1. Print First Word2. Print Last Word3. Reverse Order of Words4. Find Longest Word5. Find Shortest Word6. Capitalize First Letter of Each Word7. Swap First and Last Word8. Count Words Starting with Vowel9. Remove Duplicate Words10. Sort Words Alphabetically

Find Shortest Word

Find shortest word in string.

IntermediatePhase 5 - Category 3: Word OperationsExample 5 of 10
find-shortest-word.py
1# Take string input
2s = input("Enter a string: ")
3

4# Find shortest word
5words = s.split()
6if len(words) > 0:
7    shortest = min(words, key=len)
8    print(f"Shortest word: {shortest}")
9else:
10    print("No words found")

Output

Enter a string: Hello World Programming
Shortest word: Hello

What's going on

Use min() with key=len to find shortest.

Key Concepts:

min() finds minimum
key=len uses length for comparison
Returns shortest word

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