Comparing Strings Help

[mms6]

Given the variables name1 and name2 , write a fragment of code that assigns the larger of their associated values to first .

(NOTE: "larger" here means alphabetically larger, not "longer". Thus, "mouse" is larger than "elephant" because "mouse" comes later in the dictionary than "elephant"!)



What I got is something like this:

Quote:

first = (SOMETHING IS MISSING IN THIS BRACKET) (name1, name2)

Something is missing in that bracket, but I have no idea what it is
Some help would be greatly appreciated.

[DtY]

You can compare strings like numbers,
if "a" > "b":

do something

So a solution could be

Python:

first = max(name1, name2) second = min(name1, name2)

Or if you were not supposed to use max() and min() (most likely you haven't learned them yet), you can achieve the same thing with a conditional,

Python:

if name1 > name2: ...

[mms6]

thanks