t=('ali','rahul','ram')
In the above code, when I run the max function,
print(max(t))
this is the output I get : ram
Why do I get Ram and not Ali?
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1And why should you get Ali? – bipll May 25 '20 at 14:17
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Does this answer your question? [String comparison technique used by Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4806911/string-comparison-technique-used-by-python) – Moosa Saadat May 25 '20 at 14:19
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max() will return the largest element, either by comparing numbers or comparing strings lexicographically (the same way words are ordered in a dictonary -- the book one, not the python dict()):
>>> max((1,2,3))
3
>>> max(('b','a','c'))
'c'
>>>
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