Please use spoiler flag next time.

They are called ternary operators.

Example :
if a>1:
x=a
else:
x= b

is written as x = a if a>1 else b

len('1') < len('1') evaluates false, either order is correct in that case unless an extra rule for value order or something was added.

The tests generate two string with different length, so you always have one long string and one short string.

Chrono79, isn't the string of say one and two the same? Or "one" and "six".

What am I missing?

Thank you!
Josh

I like these solutions, but I've only learned to do it the hard way. Is there a name for this method that I can study?

The strings will not be the same length

I think I understand the problem this kata isn't for Python.

That is why lol.

I still got it though so that's cool

input will always be a string:)

if we gave numbers as the value to the variables, why didnt it just add the numbers? i used str() to convert to a string. please clear my doubt