Alex Martelli wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > thanks. I don't know what max can or cannot compare. > > Just the same things that you can compare with, say, < . > > I believe in 2.5 max and min will also accept a key= argument (like > sorted etc) to tweak what to compare, so max(thelist, key=f) should then > work (but in 2.4 you do need to more explicitly use some kind of > decorate-sort-undecorate idiom, as explained in previous posts). > Thanks. In that case, would it be easier to understand(beside the original iterative loop) if I use reduce and lambda ?
reduce(lambda (mv,mx), (v,x): mv > v and (mv,mx) or (v,x), ((f(x), x) for x in mylist))) 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) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
