23 lines
568 B
Python
23 lines
568 B
Python
import fileinput
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# This returns True if the second string has a value on the
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# same index as the last index of the first string. It runs
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# faster than trimming the strings because it runs len once
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# and is a single index lookup versus slicing both strings
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# one character at a time.
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def longer(a, b):
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try:
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b[len(a)-1]
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return False
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except:
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return True
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longest, lines = '', ''
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for x in fileinput.input():
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if longer(x, longest):
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lines, longest = x, x
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elif not longer(longest, x):
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lines += x
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print(lines, end='')
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