Can someone please explain this?

Question

https://code.sololearn.com/cKTiOFPo1CnB/?ref=app

Why is it showing aditya and pratik when there are more bigger and shorter names in the list.

Answer 1

kartik dhingra , it doesn't compare the strings in the list by length. It makes lexicographical comparison.

Answer 2

Which means that 'smaller' words are those that come early in a dictionary, and larger ones come later.

Min and max can be reconfigured to measure on a different basis though.

If you want the lengths of the words to be compared, you can do this:

print(
min(friends, key=len),
max(friends, key=len)
)

Answer 3

HonFu thank you

Answer 4

TheWh¡teCat 🇧🇬 thank you