min() & max() functionality

[Paul-Michael Agapow]

Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> wrote:
> Paul-Michael Agapow wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps I've missed it in the documentation, but what does a hand-rolled
> > sequence (i.e. my own class) need, so it can be used by min() and max()?
> 
> Does your object work correctly in a for loop? It sounds like your
> __getitem__ doesn't raise IndexError when it receives an index that's
> too large.

Bingo. I was throwing IndexError, _but_ wasn't throwing it at the right
times. Thanks Just.

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