How to find the shortest string in a list in Python

Question

This seems like a pretty simple problem, but I\'m looking for a short and sweet way of doing it that is still understandable (this isn\'t code golf).

Given a list of

Answer 1

arr=('bibhu','prasanna','behera','jhgffgfgfgfg')
str1=''

#print (len(str))
for ele in arr:
    print (ele,ele[::-1])
    if len(ele)>len(str1):
        str1=ele
    elif len(ele)