min/max: "stable" invariant?
Giovanni Bajo
rasky at develer.com
Tue Mar 11 19:09:03 EDT 2008
Hello,
assuming that a sequence contains multiple elements with minimum/maximum
value, do min/max guarantee to return the *first* element in the sequence
among those?
Example:
>>> class A:
... def __init__(self, x): self.x = x
...
>>> L = [A(0), A(1), A(2), A(0)]
>>> min(L, key=lambda a:a.x) is L[0]
True
>>> min(L, key=lambda a:a.x) is L[3]
False
Is this guaranteed by the Python language formal specification?
Is this guaranteed to always by true in CPython? (I guess so)
I can't find any mention in the documentation.
--
Giovanni Bajo
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