Python: sorting string numbers not lexicographically

Question

I have an array of string-numbers, like:

numbers = [\'10\', \'8\', \'918\', \'101010\']

When I use sorted(numbers), I get them

Answer 1

You can transform the elements of the array to integers by using the built-in map function.

print sorted(map(int, numbers))

Output:

[8, 10, 918, 101010]