Subclassing the min() build-in function?

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Bernhard Herzog fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 06 November 
2002 09:23 am:


> Your proposal woule mean that it returns the list which obviously is
> not backwards compatible.
>

>>> def safe_min(*arg):
...     return min(list(arg))
...
>>> safe_min(1,2,3)
1
>>> safe_min(2,1,3)
1
>>> safe_min(1)
1

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