On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 8:16 AM Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 10:31 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 06:52:14AM -0700, Michael Selik wrote: >> > My intent was to ask where a range was in fact passed into max, not >> merely >> > where it could be. It'd be enlightening to see a complete, realistic >> > example. >> >> A complete, realistic example is as I said: you call max() on some >> object which you don't control, the caller does. You could be >> passed a list, or a set, or a bitset, a binary search tree, a range >> object, whatever the caller happens to pass to you. >> > > Let's just assume Michael wants to know, and isn't making an argument > against the proposal. > I do want to know, but it's also an argument against the proposal -- that no one has contributed in-context usage to demonstrate the value. I'd want to see code that currently uses ``if isinstance`` to switch between ``max(x)`` and ``x.max()``. Chris Barker explained the issue well.
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