720. Longest Word in Dictionary 题目有坑

Given an array of strings words representing an English Dictionary, return the longest word in words that can be built one character at a time by other words in words.

If there is more than one possible answer, return the longest word with the smallest lexicographical order. If there is no answer, return the empty string.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["w","wo","wor","worl","world"]
Output: "world"
Explanation: The word "world" can be built one character at a time by "w", "wo", "wor", and "worl".

Example 2:

Input: words = ["a","banana","app","appl","ap","apply","apple"]
Output: "apple"
Explanation: Both "apply" and "apple" can be built from other words in the dictionary. However, "apple" is lexicographically smaller than "apply".

Constraints:

• 1 <= words.length <= 1000
• 1 <= words[i].length <= 30
• words[i] consists of lowercase English letters.

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题目并没有强调从空串开始，有个坑：

class Solution:
    def longestWord(self, words: List[str]) -> str:
        words.sort()
        wset,longest = {''},''
        for word in words:
            if word[:-1] in wset:
                wset.add(word)
                if len(word) > len(longest):
                    longest = word
        return longest