[Python-Dev] PEP 326 now online (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon Jan 5 16:44:01 EST 2004

I've submitted my latest changes that I believe address the concerns brought up since I last emailed the list. Until they are in CVS and on the standard PEP page, it can be found here: http://josiahcarlson.no-ip.org/pep-0326.html

+1 It would occasionally be useful to have ready access to an object whose sole purpose is to compare higher or lower than everything else.

Robert Brewer's idea to use spelled-out names, cmp.high and cmp.low, is easy to remember, better for non-native English speakers, and reasonably compact.

As for the open issues section, I am -1 on changing the behavior of min/max to return the new objects when given an empty list. Likewise, I'm -1 on having the operators do any math except for comparisons. The idea is most attractive in its simplest form -- there is no reason to make something hard out of something simple.

Raymond Hettinger

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