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Software ==>	Python (36 exercises)
Topic ==>	Functions (3 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Python training

Create functions to parse a quotation into a list of words and get some statistics about them

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Open the file in the above folder to see some quotations. Your aim for this exercise is to print out some statistics about them:

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 a 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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From:	mkhlz
When:	19 Sep 25 at 09:50

Why are the quotes stored in the tuple with such oddly fashion? Was that intentional? Great exercises btw!

```
# some quotations

great_quotes = ( "And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. (John Wyndham) \n" + \ "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (wrongly attributed to John Lennon)\n" + \ "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. (John Maxwell)")
```

From:	Andy B
When:	19 Sep 25 at 13:01

Thank you!

Odd in what way?

From:	Andy B
When:	19 Sep 25 at 16:27

Yes, I see your point! I think some gremlin turned the comma , into a +.

From:	mkhlz
When:	19 Sep 25 at 14:21

They are separated by the concat operator (+) rather than a comma so that's why I was asking. Simply using a for in loop isn't going to work!

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Create functions to parse a quotation into a list of words and get some statistics about them

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