Python .sort() not working as expected

Question

Tackling a few puzzle problems on a quiet Saturday night (wooohoo... not) and am struggling with sort(). The results aren\'t quite what I expect. The program iterates throug

Answer 1

The comparator operator is treating your input as strings instead of integers. In string comparsion 2 as the 3rd letter is lexically greater than 1. reversed = str(mult)[::-1]

Answer 2

No need to convert to int. mult already is an int and as you have checked it is a palindrome it will look the same as reversed, so just:

list.append(mult)

Answer 3

You're sorting strings, not numbers. Strings compare left-to-right.

Answer 4

Your list contains strings so it is sorting them alphabetically - try converting the list to integers and then do the sort.

Answer 5

You are sorting strings, not numbers. '101101' < '10201' because '1' < '2'. Change list.append(reversed) to list.append(int(reversed)) and it will work (or use a different sorting function).

Answer 6

No, it is sorting properly, just that it is sorting lexographically and you want numeric sorting... so remove the "str()"