Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
>> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
>> are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look
>> at their source, I think this is true for Jython and IronPython too.
>> However, this isn'
On 09/07/2010 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
Decimal may actually have this backwards. The idea would be that
min(*lst) == sorted(lst)[0], and max(*lst) == sorted(lst)[-1].
Here you mean "is" rather than "==", right? The relations you spelled
are guaranteed regardless of stability.
(This
On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
> are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look
> at their source, I think this is true for Jython and IronPython too.
>
> However, this isn'
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
>>> It's ignoring the order of the arguments. It also creates
>>> a new Decimal object for the return value, so I can't use i
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
>> It's ignoring the order of the arguments. It also creates
>> a new Decimal object for the return value, so I can't use id() to
>> check which one of identical elements it returns.
>
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
> Decimal may actually have this backwards. The idea would be that
> min(*lst) == sorted(lst)[0], and max(*lst) == sorted(lst)[-1]. Given a
> stable sort, then, max of equivalent elements would return the last
> element, and min the first.
Y
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
> Actually, Decimal isn't doing anything along these lines. At least in
> Python 2.6, I get:
>
Decimal('2').max(Decimal('2.0'))
> Decimal('2')
Decimal('2.0').max(Decimal('2'))
> Decimal('2')
Decimal('2.0').min(Decimal('2'))
> D
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Woodcraft
>> wrote:
>>> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
>>> are items with equal keys, the first item
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Woodcraft
> wrote:
>> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
>> are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look
>> at their source, I think thi
Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
>> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
>> are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look
>> at their source, I think this is true for Jython and IronPython too.
> It's actually not clear
FWIW: I think Mark is right. I never quite understood why that was, but
never cared enough to complain.
lvh
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Woodcraft
wrote:
> In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there
> are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look
> at their source, I think this is true for Jython and IronPython too.
It's actually not cl
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