On Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 12:53:48 AM UTC+1, sohca...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 4:35:08 PM UTC-7, 38016...@gmail.com wrote: > > nums=['3','30','34','32','9','5'] > > I need to sort the list in order to get the largest number string: > > '953433230' > > > > nums.sort(cmp=lambda a,b: cmp(a+b, b+a), reverse=True) > > > > But how to do this in python 3? > > > > Thank you > > You don't need a lambda in this case. > > Sort the strings in reverse order: > nums.sort(reverse=True) > > Create a string: > biggestNum = ''.join(nums) > > Or in a single line, which doesn't change the original value of nums: > biggestNum = ''.join(sorted(nums, reverse=True))
No, you've made exactly the same mistake that I did :( >>> nums=['3','30','34','32','9','5'] >>> wants='953433230' >>> nums.sort(reverse=True) >>> result = ''.join(nums) >>> result == wants False >>> result '953432303' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
