Python | Functions exercise | Write some functions to make it easier to get text statistics

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Software ==> Python  (28 exercises)
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Topic ==> Functions  (3 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Subject ==> Python training
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Open the file in the above folder to see some quotations.  Your aim for this exercise is to print out some statistics about them:

Quotes and stats

For each quotation we want to show the number of words (as well as the longest one) to give the output shown above.

To help you do this, write these three functions:

Function Arguments Returns
get_words A string of text A list of the words in the string of text, with new line characters removed.
count_words A list of words The number of items in the list of words (this should be a single line of code!).
longest_word A list of words The longest word in a list (see note below).

To get the longest word in a list, use the max function with a key - for example:

# get the longest word in the list of words

return max(words, key=len).upper()

You should now be able to complete your code to print out the output shown at the start of the exercise, and as a bonus have some useful functions which you can call from other programs in the future! 

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