[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] minmax() function returning (minimum, maximum) tuple of a sequence

[Georg Brandl]

Am 15.10.2010 22:00, schrieb Ron Adam:

>> (Notice the same will hold for min() but at least you know that min(x)
>> considers x as an iterable and complains if it isn't)
> 
> Yes
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a way to generalize min/max in a way to handle all 
> the cases without knowing the context.

I give up.  You see an issue where there is none.

Georg

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