"Longest Word" - Problem

Question

***PROBLEM TEXT***

Longest Word

Given a text as input, find and output the longest word.

Sample Input
this is an awesome text

Sample Output
awesome

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***MY SOLUTION***

txt = input()
words = txt.split()
char = []

for i in words:
y=len(i)
char.append(y)

highervalue = max(char)
position = char.index(highervalue)

print(words[position])

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Any better/faster code advice? I'm looking for comparison because I want to improve my skills with people with better coding ability, or just different solutions :)

ty u all!

Answer 1

uh, sorry ♤♢☞ 𝐊𝐢𝐢𝐛𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 ☜♢♤ , I'm just new in this place so I didn't know it was wrong to post something like this.
Thank you for advices, both on the main topic and the post section :)

Answer 2

Here's a straightforward example:

txt = input()
words = txt.split()

longlen, longest = 0, None
for i in words:
if longlen < len(i):
longlen = len(i)
longest = i

print(longest)

And here's a one-liner:

print(sorted((input() or 'None').split(),
key = len, reverse = True)[0])