Built-in functions (Max min)

Question

I cannot understand this expanation on textbook.
[The max function tell us the "largest character" in the string
max('hello world')
w ]
And I didn't get the output as same above
Can you give me another good example easy to know what max function is in case Letter.

Answer 1

I think it is considered as 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'. ie. the rightmost one is larger.
therefore in 'hello world', 'w' is the largest. in 'python', 'y' is the largest.

Answer 2

Thank you :)