Leetcode: Length of Last Word in python

Length of Last Word

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Given a string s consists of upper/lower-case alphabets and empty space characters ' ', return the length of last word in the string.

If the last word does not exist, return 0.

Note: A word is defined as a character sequence consists of non-space characters only.

For example,
Given s = "Hello World",
return 5.

 

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class Solution:
    # @param {string} s
    # @return {integer}
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s):
        ret = filter(lambda x: x, s.split(' '))
        return len(ret[-1]) if ret else 0