R. David Murray added the comment: I don't think there's any other way to get a ValueError out of min/max, but I haven't actually looked at the code to check. Of course, if we want people to rely on that, we'd need to document it.
'next's default is used to return a sentinel when the list is exhausted, not when it would otherwise raise a ValueError. It is a somewhat related case, but is not exactly parallel. The sentinel for next indicates the end of an ongoing process. The proposed argument to min/max would *replace* an error with a sentinel value. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18111> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
