[Python] Convert list of strings with "k" suffix for "thousand" to list of numbers

How to get list that looks like likes to likes_clean?

likes = ['82.3k', '20k', '18.2k', '17.4k', '14.2k', '13.8k', '13k', '11.4k', '9.2k',
'8.7k', '8k', '7.1k', '6.8k', '5.7k', '5.2k', '4.9k', '4.8k', '4.6k', '4.6k', '4.6k',
'4.4k', '4.4k', '4.2k', '4k', '4k', '3.6k', '3.6k', '3.3k', '3.2k', '3k']

likes_clean = [82300, 20000, 18200, 17400, 14200, 13800, 13000, 11400, 9200,
8700, 8000, 7100, 6800, 5700, 5200, 4900, 4800, 4600, 4600, 4600,
4400, 4400, 4200, 4000, 4000, 3600, 3600, 3300, 3200, 3000]


This is what I tried:

def likes_count(lks):
lks = likes
if lks[-1] == 'k':
return int(float(lks[:-1]) * 1000)
return int(lks)


But I'm getting an error when I try to call the function as likes_count(likes):

TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a real number, not 'list'
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