As you saw earlier, the split method will break a string into separate words, based on its default behavior of break up the string at each occurrence of whitespace.

You can also use split to break the string on different characters. For example, you could break the string on full-stops using split('.'). This gives you an easy (if somewhat naive) way of generating all the sentences in a string:

string = 'Hello world. My name is Plargleflarp.' 

print(string.split('.')) 

['Hello world', ' My name is Plargleflarp', ''] 

Write a function longest_sentence_length(text) that takes a single string argument text and returns the length of the longest sentence in text, measured in words. For example:

text = 'Hello world. My name is Plargleflarp.' print(longest_sentence_length(text)) 

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