[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] minmax() function returning (minimum, maximum) tuple of a sequence (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Oct 11 02:15:08 CEST 2010


2010/10/10 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

Personnally, I'm not convinced that a maximum 25% improvement on a rather uncommon use case (min() and max() on a sequence of objects which take a long time to compare) is a compelling argument for a builtin.  On the other hand, it would be a rather simple and intuitive builtin, so why not?

Because new builtins should have a better reason that there's no good reason not to. :)

-- Regards, Benjamin



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