<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > As while DSU is a very smart way to guard the max compare thing, it is > still being introduced as a way that is not related to the original > problem, i.e. I just want to compare f(x)
And that's why in 2.5 you'll just code max(mylist, key=f) to express this intent exactly -- that's precisely what 'key=' means. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list