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Deepest Sublist

PythonHardarrays

Instructions

You are given a list which may contain sublists. Your task is to find the depth of the deepest sublist.

  • [a] = 1 depth
  • [[a]] = 2 depth
  • [[[a]]] = 3 depth, etc

Examples

deepest([1, [2, 3], 4, [5, 6]]) ➞ 2

deepest([[[[[[[[[[1]]]]]]]]]]) ➞ 10

deepest([1, 4, [1, 4, [1, 4, [1, 4, [5]]]]]) ➞ 5

Notes

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