Julian Berman added the comment: It's not exactly the same of course, but calling next on a thing that might be empty would be somewhat close, and also is replacing an exception with a sentinel (an exception that is much easier to differentiate).
You can always get a ValueError out of min/max, they're going to be ultimately calling __lt__ on stuff which can do what it wants, but that's admittedly quite unlikely. It's not really that readable though on the other hand. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
