I am trying to get a list input by the user and then sort the list elements (which are integers) in ascending order. But the elements are stored as strings and I don't know how to convert each element into int type. For example:
p = input("Enter comma separated numbers:")
p = p.split(",")
p.sort()
print(p)
When I input
-9,-3,-1,-100,-4
I get the result as:
['-1', '-100', '-3', '-4', '-9']
But the desired output is:
[-100, -9, -4, -3, -1]
Try p = list(map(int, p.split(","))) instead of your second line, does that work?
Your p is a list that consists of strings therefore they won't be sorted by their numerical values. Try this:
p.sort(key=int)
If you need a list of integers, convert them in the beginning:
p = [int(i) for i in p.split(",")]
input("blabla") returns string values even if you are inputting numbers. When you are sorting p, you are not sorting integers like you think.
This piece of code converts string elements of a list to integers, you can do this first then sort the new integer array:
for i in range(0,len(p)):
p[i] = int(p[i])
or in easier way you can turn string elements to integers while splitting the string by using int parameter, as zack256 mentioned above
a = input()
p = a.split(',')
p.sort(key=int)
print(p)
a = input("type--")
p = list(a.split(','))
p.reverse()
print(p)
