How does pandas take the max of strings in a dataframe?

Asked Dec 12 '19 at 13:45

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Im wondering why taking a max from a dataframe column of strings throws no error..

E.g. consider the following pandas dataframe:

df_test = pd.DataFrame({'names': ['Tim', 'Sebby', 'Max', 'Julia', 'Troy']})

When taking the max of the column,

df_test.max()

it gives me

Troy

I don't understand how this works? How can pandas take the max of strings?

edited Dec 12 '19 at 13:53

asked Dec 12 '19 at 13:45

MJimitater

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Please post code not pics. – rpanai Dec 12 '19 at 13:47
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Looks like lexicographically – Kaushal28 Dec 12 '19 at 13:48
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To answer your question [Lexicographical_order](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographical_order) – rpanai Dec 12 '19 at 13:48

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