Range Operation pre-PEP

[Carel Fellinger]

Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> wrote:
> 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.

only it isn't maxing chars, it's maxing lines.
-- 
groetjes, carel