I am confused.

[brisk tulip]

I'm German but you don't have to understand the words.
['Banane', 'Schokolade', 'mohrrübe'] is my list.
I'm confused because "Schokolade" has way more indexes than "mohrrübe"

[knotty ember]

"more indexes"?

min and max on a list of strings just perform alphabetical comparisons on the strings

[brisk tulip]

Idk man i mean like more letters

Which is what it’s going off of right?

[marsh geyser]

len= length of the list in your case

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Kinda confusing a lil yes, maybe share your script full?

my output:
3
Banane
mohrrübe

mylist=['Banane', 'Schokolade', 'mohrrübe']
print(len(mylist))
print(min(mylist))
print(max(mylist))

so you do smth else? xD

ahhhh he is not looking up for the length of chars in this.
he is looking up for the number value. But of the first letter only 😄

here my script that explains it:

mylist=['Banane', 'Schokolade', 'mohrrübe']
print(len(mylist))
print(min(mylist))
print(max(mylist))
for ele in mylist:
    total = sum(map(ord, ele))
    first_ascii = ord(ele[0])
    print(f"{ele} ascii summed: {total}, ascii first letter: {first_ascii}")

out:

3
Banane
mohrrübe
Banane ascii summed: 581, ascii first letter: 66
Schokolade ascii summed: 1021, ascii first letter: 83
mohrrübe ascii summed: 1003, ascii first letter: 109

basically its checking for the first letters ascii value,
the "m" has bigger value then all capital letters ("B", "S")
but "b" and "s" would have higher values 😄
Its just capital letters hae lower ascii value then lowercase letters.
So that explains the srting you have there 🙂

[knotty ember]

Nope, it's doing alphabetical ordering

[marsh geyser]

but lowercase have a bigger value here

[knotty ember]

if you want it to use the length of the values you'd have to pass in a custom key, e.g. print(min(mylist, key=lambda v: len(v)))

[knotty ember]

It's not only the first character

If the first characters differ you can implement full ordering using only that character, if it's the same you also have to take into account the second or third etc. characters

[brisk tulip]

Ok I got it thank you guys soo much:)

[brisk tulip]

Noted.

[brisk tulip]

Sorry to bother you but I just tested it with "Mohrrübe" and not "mohrrübe but it now says that the first letter of Schokolade has a higher ascii value than "Banane" even though "B" is in front of "S" in alphabetical order.

Here:

Oh and 1 more thing, why would "S" have a higher ascii value than "M" if its going off of alphabetical order"

[marsh geyser]

m
nopqr
s

thats why

ascending = aufsteigend in german 😉

[low plume]

Troll, just do key=len

[knotty ember]

😠

But then they don't get to learn about how key works with custom functions 😠

[low plume]

Hehehe