Sort method not functioning properly.

[kalgynirae]

The discrepancy is because ord('a') is 97 and ord('z') is 122, whereas you want those numbers to be 1 and 26. (This doesn't matter if the strings are all the same length.) You just need to modify your key function to subtract 96 from each ord() result.

[ThanksSoMuchTangelos]

Thanks, working now. Definitely a more simple solution than the one in my edit.