"Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hello, | | assuming that a sequence contains multiple elements with minimum/maximum | value, do min/max guarantee to return the *first* element in the sequence | among those? | | Example: | | >>> class A: | ... def __init__(self, x): self.x = x | ... | >>> L = [A(0), A(1), A(2), A(0)] | >>> min(L, key=lambda a:a.x) is L[0] | True | >>> min(L, key=lambda a:a.x) is L[3] | False | | Is this guaranteed by the Python language formal specification? | Is this guaranteed to always by true in CPython? (I guess so) | | I can't find any mention in the documentation.
If there is no mention in the documentation (Lib Ref, Ch2 builtin functions), then there is no guarantee. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
