Find maximum int value from list which contain both str and int python

Question

Looking to find max from the combine list as follows:

[\'filename1\', 1696, \'filename2\', 5809,....]

I have tried following:<

Answer 1

You can also use try...except clause.

lst = ['filename1', 1696, 'filename2', 5809]
numbers = []

for item in lst:
    try:
        numbers.append(int(item))
    except ValueError:
        pass # Ignore items which are not numbers

print(max(numbers))
# 5809