[Python-Dev] Re: (Don't Read If You're Busy With 2.1b2) "Rich" Comparisons?

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> So given a subset of a lattice, it may not have a maximum, but it will
> always have a supremum. It appears that the Python max function
> differs from the mathematical maximum in that respect: max will return
> a value, even if that is not the "largest value"; the mathematical
> maximum might give no value.

Ah, but in Python most collections are usually finite. :)


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