How to sort a list of strings numerically?

Question

I know that this sounds trivial but I did not realize that the sort() function of Python was weird. I have a list of \"numbers\" that are actually in string for

Answer 1

Simple way to sort a numerical list

numlists = ["5","50","7","51","87","97","53"]
results = list(map(int, numlists))
results.sort(reverse=False)
print(results)