compare two python strings that contain numbers

Question

UPDATE: I should have specified this sooner, but not all of the names are simply floats. For example, some of them are \"prefixed\" with \"YT\". So for example\" YT1.1. so,

Answer 1

If you know they are real numbers [*] , simply:

>>> float(s1) > float(s2)
True

[*] Otherwise, be ready to handle a raised ValueError.