[Python-ideas] Make max() stable

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andrew Barnert writes:

 > No, a list is a multiset _with order_. Which is the whole
 > point. You claimed that because it's a multiset, the order doesn't
 > matter. But because the domain of max is a sequence (or, better, as
 > you correctly point out, an iterable), not a multiset, the order
 > does matter. Otherwise this entire question wouldn't arise in the
 > first place.

Iterables need not have order in a sense that allows definition of
"stability".  That's why things like OrderedDict are necessary.