[Python-Dev] adding key argument to min and max (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 02:58:48 CET 2004
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> I don't want to put words into your mouth, so is this a vote against a > key= argument for min and max?
Right. I don't think there is any need.
Hm, min and max are probably needed 2-3 orders of magnitude more frequently than nsmallest/nlargest. So I think it's reasonable to add the key= argument to min and max as well. (We didn't leave it out of sorted() because you can already do it with list.sort().)
def testlargest(self):
shouldn't that be test_nlargest?
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