Re: [Python-ideas] 'default' keyword argument for max(), min()

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:19:05 am George Sakkis wrote:

I think it would be counter-intuitive and error-prone if min(iterable, default=0) was different from min(*iterable, default=0), so I'd say no on the first one.

That's already the case.

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min( iter([1]) )

1

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min( *iter([1]) )

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable