Range Operation pre-PEP

[Christopher A. Craig]

Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> writes:

> 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.
> 

Umm, you can do that now:
reduce(max, sys.stdin.read())

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