Minimum and Maximum of a list containing floating point numbers

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:00:45 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

> If you're going to use the list of float objects, you can convert them
> all with a list comprehension.
[...]
>     >>> numbers_as_float = [float(x) for x in numbers_as_str]

That's awfully verbose. A map is simpler:

numbers_as_float = map(float, numbers_as_str)


-- 
Steven