What is the result of max(l) when l is a list of strings in Python?

Question

I'm a python beginner and I have a question. I defined:

s = 'Manchester united is the best football team'
l = s.split(' ')
max(l)

The final answer was united, but I expected it should have been Manchester, because: len(l[0]) = 10 and len(l[1]) = 6.

Is there someone to answer my question?

Does this answer your question? [How does the max() function work on list of strings in python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20463204/how-does-the-max-function-work-on-list-of-strings-in-python) — mlueckl, Oct 07 '21 at 14:29
max takes the last item sorted. So if you sort that list in alpha order, the max/last item will be `'united'`. Try `s = 'Manchester united is za best football team'`, and it will return `'za'` — chitown88, Oct 07 '21 at 14:32

score -2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '21 at 14:25

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This was already answered here stackoverflow.com/a/20463240/964862

answered Oct 07 '21 at 14:25

mlueckl

Then maybe vote to close it as a duplicate? This really isn't an answer. – Ollie Oct 07 '21 at 14:27
Not sure how I can do that – mlueckl Oct 07 '21 at 14:27
Use the "flag --> duplicate link --> submit" sequence on the question. – Ollie Oct 07 '21 at 14:28
Thank you, just flagged it. – mlueckl Oct 07 '21 at 14:30

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