How does the max() function work on list of strings in python?

Question

I have a list:

list1 = [123, \'xyz\', \'zara\', \'abc\']
print \"Max value element : \", max(list1);

It gives:

Max value e         


        

Answer 1

list1=['2020','4','890','70','891','898']
max(list1)

--> returns 898

in case of only numbers enclosed as string, it will compare the first maximum digit, if there are two(in this case: three which start with 8)-

it will look for second digit of same number and continue to compare till it find the bigger one. hence return 898