Range Operation pre-PEP

[Christopher A. Craig]

"Andrew Henshaw" <andrew_dot_henshaw_at_earthling_dot_net> writes:

> Is there a reason that you need the 'reduce'?
> 
>     max(sys.stdin.read())
> 
> should work.

I does.  I didn't remember that if max is supplied with a sequence as
a single argument it will return the largest value in that sequence.
Sort of funny since that used to be the only behavior for max...

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