[Python-ideas] Re: argmax and argmin to python list

On 31/08/2020 01:14, Christopher Barker wrote:

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 7:28 AM Barry mailto:barry@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

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How is it supposed to work with set or dict or other iterables without clear order?

see the discussion in another recent thread about making dict indexable -- which looks like it's not going to happen. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those. so no -- this should not work with general iterables, indexes don't really make sense for iterables, only Sequences.

It would be as useful as:

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min(dict(b=1, c=3, a=2)) 'a'

I half expected 1 (and from argmin would expect 'b') but I see why the actual result is "consistent". Jeff