try:
    cmp     # Python 2 OK or NameError in Python 3
    def maxnum(x):
        return ''.join(sorted((str(n) for n in x),
                              cmp=lambda x,y:cmp(y+x, x+y)))
except NameError:
    # Python 3
    from functools import cmp_to_key
    def cmp(x, y):
        return -1 if x<y else ( 0 if x==y else 1)
    def maxnum(x):
        return ''.join(sorted((str(n) for n in x),
                              key=cmp_to_key(lambda x,y:cmp(y+x, x+y))))

for numbers in [(1, 34, 3, 98, 9, 76, 45, 4), (54, 546, 548, 60):
    print('Numbers: %r\n  Largest integer: %15s' % (numbers, maxnum(numbers)))