[Python-ideas] Making min and max behave more like any and all

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jakob Bowyer <jkbbwr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just had something pointed out to me in #python that min and max accept
> *args, I know for a fact that any and all only use a single iterable
> password.
> Shouldn't we allow either one of the two ideas?
>
>
any(True, False, True)
all(False, True, True)
max(1,2,3,4)
min(1,2,3,4)
sum(1,2,3,4)
list(1,2,3,4)
set(1,2,3,4)

TOOWTDI would mean to allow only one argument in all of the above.
Currently only max/min break the rule.

I'm +1 for making python consistent. And specifically would be +0 for
allowing it all.

--Yuval

Btw even enumerate could have been a candidate though it already has a
second argument.
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