Dec. 2, 2004
1:58 a.m.
I don't want to put words into your mouth, so is this a vote against a key= argument for min and max?
Right. I don't think there is any need.
Hm, min and max are probably needed 2-3 orders of magnitude more frequently than nsmallest/nlargest. So I think it's reasonable to add the key= argument to min and max as well. (We didn't leave it out of sorted() because you can already do it with list.sort().)
def test_largest(self):
shouldn't that be test_nlargest? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)