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

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Nov 30, 2011 5:31 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?
>
> Either max/min take only iterable arguments.
> OR
> Allow any/all to use *args
>
> In the second case this becomes legal
>
> any(1 in a, 2 in b, 3 in c)

I'd use 'or' here.  For all, I'd use 'and'.

-- 
Arnaud
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