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

all elements types are string,

 >>> x=['4', '5', '29', '54', '4', '0', '-214', '542', '-64', '1', '-3', '6', '-6']
 >>> max(x)
 '6'

It "orders" the words alphabetically and returns the one that is at the bottom of the alphabetic list

Few more examples:

    >>> list1 = ['kyle', 'dhamu']
    >>> max(list1)
    'kyle'

returns kyle because k is after d

Also remember from python3.7 you cannot mix strings and integers to use max function. Below is the example

>>> mix_list = ['my', 'name', 'is', 1 ]
>>> max(mix_list)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str'