Doug Hellmann added the comment: +1 on adding this
I found today via @dabeaz's cookbook that iter() has a sentinel-detection use case. Having one in min/max seems *far* more obviously useful. It's also consistent with quite a few methods on builtin types where we provide a way to deal with unknown data safely by having a default instead of catching exceptions directly. ---------- nosy: +doughellmann _______________________________________ 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
