> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Bethard > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Python-Dev] adding key argument to min and max > > This is my first post to Python dev, so I figured I should introduce > myself. > > My name's Steven Bethard and I'm a computer science Ph.D. student at > the University of Colorado at Boulder working primarily in the areas > of natural language processing and machine learning. During my > undergrad at the University of Arizona, I worked as a teaching > assistant teaching Java for 2 1/2 years, though now that I'm at CU > Boulder I pretty much only work in Python. I started getting active > on the Python list about 6 months ago, and I've been watching > python-dev for the last few months. > > For Python 2.5, I'd like to add a keyword argument 'key' to min and > max like we have now for list.sort and sorted. . . . > I've implemented a patch that provides this functionality, but there > are a few concerns about how it works.
Guido says yes. So, load the patch to SF and assign to me for review, testing, and documentation. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
