Why does the Max of my tuples return yellow?

Question

Trying to understand how the different functions and methods work within python. So I wanted to experiment and see what happens with the below code. However, I am really struggling to figure out why ''' print(max(colours)) ''' equates to yellow.

input
>colours = ("black", "red", "green","yellow","purple", "orange")
>print(colours[0])
>print(max(colours))

Output
> black
> yellow

Answer 1

the comparison is done lexicographically for strings

so yellow (which starts with 'y' has the highest value)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

thank you so much for the swift reply, and of course!!!