Range Operation pre-PEP

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> For an extreme example, max(sys.stdin)

Ha! I like it! I can just imagine a professor setting
an assignment which says "Read characters from standard
input up to EOF and return the one with the highest
ASCII value" and some smart-alec student hands in
a one-line Python solution.

Pretty soon our one-liners will be even shorter
than Perl's!

Next-stop-APL-ly,

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