Ah OK, I stand corrected. Whoops. I just read the web page and thought the wrong thing, that makes sense.
> Think about it. A key= function is quite a different thing. It provides a > *temporary* comparison key while retaining the original value. IOW, your > re-write is incorrect: > > >>> L = ['the', 'quick', 'brownish', 'toad'] > >>> max(L, key=len) > 'brownish' > >>> max(len(x) for x in L) > 8 > > > Remain calm. Keep the faith. Guido's design works fine. > > No important use cases were left unserved by any() and all(). > > > > Raymond Hettinger > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
