R. David Murray added the comment: So you aren't really asking for a default, you are asking for a version of max/min that returns a sentinel instead of raising an error on an empty list. You could just write utility function that has a try/except in it. I'm not sure it is worth complicating min and max for this use case. (I'm not sure it isn't, either.) I wonder if we have any other functions in python that have an argument that turns a ValueError into a sentinel-return instead?
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