Why Python max() does not return maximum value?

Question

Just First week of learning Python I am trying to print max value from python 3 list. But output is not the max number.

Code:

amount = ['123250','546698','456987','8','1']
print(max(amount))

Output:

8

Screen shot:

Answer 1

Because you are using numbers as strings. Convert your list to have only integers

amount = ['123250','546698','456987','8','1']
amount = [int(value) for value in amount]
print(max(amount))

This will output

546698